The Church of Holy Week - is Orthodox Cathedral in Sofia, named in honor of the Holy Great Week.

About the early history of the church remained a bit of information. Presumably, the first church on this site was built in the X century - a wooden building stood on a stone foundation. Until the middle of the XIX century church, unlike other temples in the city, it was still wooden. At the end of the 19th century there was a large fire and the old buildings damaged in the fire, was demolished to build in its place a new one. Then it was built the current cathedral.

Since the XVIII century, the church was declared a cathedral. The changes were made and its name: from the fact that here were brought Serbia remains of King Stephen II, she became known as the Church of the Holy King. Renamed the temple was only at the end of the XIX century.

Temple of Holy Week - is an impressive structure, initially reaches a length of 35, 5 and 19 meters - in width. Its construction dragged on for six years (in part - because of what happened in 1858, a devastating earthquake) - from 1856 to 1963. Bell tower was built later - in 1879. It was established 8 bells, donated new temple Prince Dondukov-Korsakov.

Its modern look church gained after extensive reconstruction, produced in the 20-30 years. the last century - in 1925, a bomb exploded here and killed more than 200 people. Under the guidance of architects Tsolova and Vasiliev was built a new church building in the neo-Byzantine style. The current size of the building up 30h15, 5 meters, the height of the main dome reaches 31 meters.

The interior space of the church is decorated with frescoes painted between 1971 and 1973, a group of artists under the direction of Nikolai Rostovtsev. One of the main values ​​of the temple is a gilded iconostasis outstanding master Stanislav Dospevski.