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Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church

The Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church and formerly the Black Mosque is a Bulgarian Orthodox church, located in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It was established in 1547 as an Ottoman mosque, later converted into an Eastern Orthodox church, and was inaugurated on 27 July 1903.
Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church
Photo: Plamen Agov (Пламен Агов), CC BY-SA 3.0

Walks that pass here

Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church

Walk

After the liberation: a two-hour walk through the Sofia of 1878

A short first walk through four landmarks raised after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78: a doctors' memorial, the gold-domed cathedral, the Tsar Liberator and a mosque turned church.

~2 h in total
~1.5 km, ~20 min walking
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