St. Archangels Michael and Gabriel Church



This is a three-nave basilica built in 1861 with a big comparatively low semicircular apse and a wide three-sided parvis. A lot of the icons in the temple have church-donors’ inscriptions in Greek language where the year of the foundation is mentioned. There are remarkable ones among them such as Archangelic Council – the patronal icon of 1866, St. John the Baptist of 1872, Presentation of the Blessed Virgin, Nativity of Christ.
The rich woodcarvings of the iconostasis, the bishop’s throne and the small iconostasis (proskinitarion) are work of the well-known master Yane Spirov.
The murals in St. Archangels Michael and Gabriel Church are magnificent, especially these on the church’s vault arch. It is obvious that they are made by a very experienced artist. The compositional distribution of the figures in the scenes on the vault arches and from the patronal cycle is well planned.
