Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Burgas

"Sts. Cyril and Methodius" is an Orthodox church building in Burgas, Bulgaria. The church building is included in the list of the 100 national tourist sites from 2022. It has been declared an architectural, construction and artistic monument of culture (immovable cultural value) of national importance. The church building is built in the likeness of a cathedral church - three naves with a central apse; it is called a cathedral (i.e. a church of the metropolitan in the city seat of the diocese), but it has no such status (because the seat of the diocese is in Sliven). It is 33 meters high and is located in the center of the city, on Saint Cyril and Methodius Square, on the site of a small wooden church, which was the only Exarchist church building in the city before the Liberation. It was built in the period 1897-1907 according to the project of the Italian architect Riccardo Toscani, who worked in the city. "St. Cyril and Methodius" differs from the churches built during the so-called Bulgarian Revival and in the first years after the liberation from Ottoman rule. The temple is a three-nave cruciform basilica, oriented along the east–west axis. The central apse with the altar and the richly decorated iconostasis are located in the eastern part of the church. The nave divides the interior of the church into three naves by means of five pairs of supporting marble columns. The ce

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