Holy Trinity Church Sevlievo city

Overview

The opportunity to build a "new" church in Sevlievo was used immediately after the end of the so-called church struggle, which ended in February 1870 with the legalization of the Bulgarian Exarchate by a sultan's decree. The most respected representatives of the Bulgarian community, who were also church trustees, immediately raised the necessary funds. They commissioned the construction of the famous Bulgarian master builder from Tryavna Usta Gencho Kanev "Big" / 1828 - 1890 /.

The Holy Trinity Church rose as one of the most representative buildings in Sevlievo until the Liberation. On the western façade above its entrance is the following inscription: "Build this holy church in the name of the Holy Trinity, the holy co-apostles Bulgarian educators Cyril and Methodius and St. Joanna Rilski with the diligence and dependence of the patriotic citizens of Sevlievo Sevlievo, 1870 October 19."

Even before the Liberation, the Holy Trinity Church became one of the centers of spiritual and social life in the city.

The impressive building is built of cut local stone with three altar apses, the middle one rising to the roof. The beauty of the baroque forms and lines continues inside the temple - tall and slender columns support wide semicircular arches, on which rises a large dome. The icons for the first iconostasis of the church were painted by the famous icon painters Stanislav Dospevski and Tsanyu Zahariev in 1870-1872.

The frescoes are beautifully painted, pleasing to the eye and uplifting. In the courtyard of the temple are the tombs of the Russian soldiers who died for the liberation of Bulgaria. The leaders of the April Uprising in the Sevlievo region, hanged on the square in Sevlievo, are buried at the altar of the church. Nearby, in the silence of the churchyard, rests the chairman of the revolutionary committee, Stefan Peshev, who sacrificed himself and his comrades in front of the altar of freedom.