Europe, Bulgaria, Sofia, Sveta Nedelya Church

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Sveta Nedelya Cathedral

Sofia


Completed in 1863, this magnificent domed church is one of the city’s major landmarks, and is noted for its rich, Byzantine-style murals. The church was targeted by communists on 16 April 1925 in a failed bomb attack aimed at assassinating Tsar Boris III.