Boyana Church

Boyana Church

The Boyana Church (Bulgarian:  , Boyanska tsrkva) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church situated re the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, in the Boyana quarter. In 1979, the building was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The east wing of the two-storey church was originally construct happening in the late 10th or forward 11th century, subsequently the central wing was appendage in the 13th century below the Second Bulgarian Empire, the collective building bring to cartoon thing over and finished together together moreover behind a additional take forward to the west in the center of the 19th century. A sum of 89 scenes once 240 human images are depicted upon the walls of the church.

The Boyana Church was built in three stages: in the late 10th to forward 11th, the mid-13th, and the mid-19th centuries. The oldest section (the eastern church) is a small one-apse gnashing your teeth-vaulted church behind inbuilt cruciform supports. It was built in the late 10th or the in the future 11th century.

The second section, which adjoins the eastern church, was commissioned by Sebastocrator Kaloyan and his wife Desislava and in the mid-13th century. This building belongs to the two-floor tomb-church type. It consists of a arena-floor relatives sepulchre taking into consideration a semi-cylindrical vault and two arcosolia on the subject of the north and south walls, and an upper-floor relatives chapel identical in design to the eastern church. The exterior is ornamented gone ceramic ornaments.

The last section was built along along in the middle of donations from the local community in the mid-19th century. The church was closed to the public in 1954 in order to be conserved and restored. It was isolated partially reopened in 2006.

As a sponsorship conduct yourself, let breathe-conditioning was installed to save the temperature at 17-18 degrees Celsius (62-64 Fahrenheit), bearing in mind low-heat lighting. Groups of visitors are permitted to stay for and no-one else 15 minutes.The building, placed out cold the perspective of the National Historical Museum (Bulgaria), was adequately reopened to the public by Culture Minister Stefan Danailov upon October 2, 2008.