Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius
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Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius - Orthodox church is located in the town of Sozopol, Burgas region. Bears the name of Saints Cyril and Methodius, also known as "the brothers of Thessalonica" (Constantine the Philosopher and Methodius), the creators and distributors of the first Slavic alphabet - the Glagolitic alphabet, from which subsequently created the Cyrillic alphabet.

The church was built tryavnenskim master Usta Gencho in 1889 for the needs of refugees from areas which have been subordinated to Constantinople (Tsaregradskiy) Patriarchate (which gave the temple a second informal name - "church refugees"). During the construction of the church was outside the city, and there they worship only on major holidays.

The building is a single-nave basilica 25 m., Width 13 and a height of 12 m. Later the bell tower was added a height of about 23 meters. The church contains a carved iconostasis masters debarskoy school XVII-XVIII century, which was moved here from the destroyed in the XIX century Church of St. Sozopol. John.

After 1944 the church was converted into a municipal museum first, then in the warehouse, and finally to the Museum of Underwater Archaeology. Since 1989, the building was returned to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. After a long renovation in 2011, the church was reopened for visitors and worship.

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