Church "St. Petka ”, Radibosh

Description

Category Heritage
Ownership Radomir municipality
Present use Orthodox Church
Past use Orthodox Church
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The church "St. Paraskeva ”, also known as“ St. Petka ”in the village of Radibosh is late medieval, probably from the end of the 16th century. It contains one of the first old printed books from the Bulgarian printing house in Venice from 1538. In the 18th and 19th centuries the church was the main parish church. serving priests, painted on a wall in the narthex in 1933. There was a cell school near the church. In 1847 the church was expanded to the west.
It is widely believed that the church has been declared a cultural monument since it was restored and preserved in the 1980s. It does not appear in the registers of immovable cultural monuments.
The medieval frescoes are preserved in fragments. The new part of the temple is decorated with frescoes with characteristic primitivism, less valuable than the medieval ones. The old icons were probably stolen, not preserved.