St. George's Church Museum (Arbanasi)

 museum, cultural heritage / national heritage, interesting place, listed building / architectural heritage, 17th century construction, Orthodox church

The Church of St. George was built in the northwestern part of Arbanasi in 1661, as evidenced by a steep inscription above the entrance to the site. The frescoes date from 1710 and represent iconographic cycles of the Great Feasts, the Feasts of Christ and the Post-Paschal Cycle.
The St. George Church is a solid stone building with dimensions 21х10.05 m, covered by a double-pitched roof.
The church is single-nave, single-apse building with a narthex on the west and a gallery on the north. The main entrance is on the north side of the gallery. The gallery and narthex ceilings are covered by wood battens attached to the trimmer joists. The nave is covered by a semi-circular vault made of bricks and oak-tree beams. The apse is semi-circular, slightly protruding from the exterior side. In front of it, there is an altar table with its plinth coated with clay. At the two sides of the apse there are two niches – imitating the prothesis and the diaconicon.
The main part of the iconostasis – the tzar’s icons, the apostle’s row and top-piece – the crucifix was made in the first half of the 17th century (around 1616).

arbanassi.org/Tsarkva-Sveti-Georgi-Arbanasi/index.html
audiotravelguide.ro/en/st-george-church-arbanasi/
crhc-sofia.com/en/content/arbanassi-stgeorge-church