Changes After Construction
In 1921, an administrative process was carried out to halt and suspend the construction on the grounds that the building had been erected without a permit.
The church underwent restoration in 2010.
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The church belongs to the Bulgarian Exarchate Orthodox Church Foundation.
The building is also known as the “Sveti Dimitri Mirotoçivii Bulgarian Orthodox Church.”
The church was built within the Feriköy Bulgarian Cemetery to meet the need for holding funeral and religious services for the Bulgarian community inside the cemetery.
The building was commissioned in memory of 64 Bulgarian villagers who were killed in the village of Zagoriçani.
The old Bulgarian-style icons and frescoes of the church were made by the painter Pando Stefanov, who was from Zagoriçani.
The building has a rectangular plan; on the entrance façade, there is an almost square entrance hall projecting outward, and this hall is defined by a dome resting on a high drum.
On the other short side, there is a semicircular apse; the apse has a triple-arched window, the long sides have three arched windows each, and the entrance hall contains two opposing window openings.
Apart from the roof covering over the entrance, the building is covered with a gabled roof constructed in timber.
