Church of St. Nicholas Stari

Overview

St. Nicholas Stari is a Revival Orthodox church in the Danube town of Lom, Bulgaria. The temple is located in the center of the northern district of Boruna, the former Turkish quarter. The church was rebuilt in 1818 on the initiative of the Lom chorbadji Tseko. In 1828, during the Russo-Turkish War, it was destroyed by the authorities to use the stone material to fortify the Kale fortress. According to a letter from the Lom municipality in the Constantinople Gazette of October 7, 1856, the walls and roof of a very old church still stood in the Turkish neighborhood, "which none of our fathers can tell us when it was built and when it was desolate. "

One of the first church schools in the Vidin diocese was opened in 1760 in the Borun church.

The church was rebuilt in 1885, when the city was already in the Principality of Bulgaria. Some of the icons in the church were painted by painters from the Debar Art School. The icon of the Holy Mother of God is the work of Nestor Trayanov. Since 1861 it is the icon of the Virgin of Tenderness, the work of the famous master Dicho Zograf, which was in the church with a signature, but later this icon disappeared.

In 1975 the church was declared a cultural monument. In 2006 it was renovated under a project of the municipality of Lom, funded by the program "Beautiful Bulgaria".