Photo The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia by Maria Ilcheva

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The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia

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Maria Ilcheva add to favorites

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travel, architecture, landscape

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Europe

place:

Bulgaria

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The St. Alcxander Nevsky Patriarchal Cathedral Stauropigial Memorial-Church in Sofia repre sents the material expression of gratitude of the Bulgarian people for the remarkable self sacriftee of the 200,000 Russian heroes who by their unprecedented valour, resolution and boundless fraternal love, at the price of their blood and life, in the Russo-Turkish Liberation War (1877-1878) broke the chains of the neany five century Ottoman bondage and gaven the pepole their priceless freedom.
The St. Alexander Nevsky Memorial-Church is an impressive five nave basilica of a cruciform domed type with basic Byzantine style elements, influenced in some parts by eastern models. Its builtup area is 3,170sq.m . and its total volume about 86,000sq.m. Its external length is 73.50m. and the width 50.52m.
The iconostases, the big and small bishop's thrones, the pulpit, the rail lattices of the solea, the balustrade of the choir stand, the entire flooring of the church and the seat of the priests along the wall of the altar apse are done in onyx and marble brought from all parts of the world, in a Byzantine style, interspersed with Old-Bulgarian patterns

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Sun 24 Sep 2006 22:15

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