Sveti Dimitri Church
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.
Prominent Features:
- 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.
