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This morning the temple woke up after a “peaceful” protest with flooded red paint and egg shells. No comment, “wrote Temenujka Vitanova on Facebook, who also uploaded photos to the social network.
The church is located in the center of Sofia. The crypt of the church is a Roman tomb from the 4th century. In the 11th century, the current temple was built on the crypt. The oldest preserved frescoes are from the 14th century, and over them there is a cape from the 15th and 16th centuries, the work of Pimen Zografski. The church is named after Petka Ikoniyska, patron saint of samardzhii, whose neighborhood was in the area during the Middle Ages.
A few days ago, scratched with a blue spray, the Church of the Holy Septuagint in the capital dawned. “Renunciation or” or “Death” is written on the facade of the temple. The photo of the ugly act was shared on social media from the page “Lyubomir Talev’s conservative blog”. “The political program of the protest, written on the wall of the Church of the Holy Septuagint. The next logical step is to cause an explosion during a service for the death of the heroic ancestors of the authors of the threat of 1925”, Talev wrote.
The GERB deputy, Desislava Atanasova, condemned the act on Facebook
This is what she wrote:
Another vandalism against a temple of faith.
The church “St. Petka” – samardzhiyska, dawn flooded with red paint.
St. Petka is one of the few working medieval churches in Sofia. The temple is located in the very center of the capital (in ancient times Serdika), on Saborna street in the Sheraton Hotel subway.
The temple was mentioned for the first time in the 16th century, but archaeologists discovered it only after WWII. Under the church an ancient Roman tomb was discovered (a crypt, probably from the 4th century), on which the temple was built in the 11th century.
Today, only a small part of the church remains: just a single-nave building, built of bricks and stones with walls up to a meter thick.
The first frescoes that are preserved are from the end of the 14th century. Another, second wall layer dates from the XV-XVI century. The top layer is believed to be the work of the painter-monk Saint Pimen Zografski. The Nativity of Christ, the Passion of the Cross, the Crucifixion, the Tomb and the Resurrection of the Lord are represented, as well as scenes from the Gospel with the preaching and miracles of Christ.
The church is dedicated to the holy martyr Paraskeva – Petka Ikoniyska (Tarnovo). It is called “St. Petka Samardzhiyska” because in the Middle Ages around the temple lived masters of saddles for horses (samardzhii), who supported and worshiped it with the belief that St. Petka was its patron and protector.
Some contemporaries of Vasil Levski, archaeologists and modern intellectuals believe that the Apostle was reburied in the crypt of St. Petka.
I don’t know who you are, but since faith, holiness and history don’t matter to you, do you have the right to speak about the future, destroying the present and the past?
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