The Brotherly Mound memorial complex in Plovdiv to open doors as a Thracian Pantheon and a center of monumental art – that was the suggestion, made before the Plovdiv 2019 foundation by Dimitar Pampoulov, a famous public figure of the city. The spot is emblematic for Plovdiv, which has been preparing for its 2019 European Capital of Culture role. The monument has been closed in the course of almost 28 years. Prior to the 1989 fall of communism newly married couples had to lay flowers there and inside one could see stone and bronze-made sculptures. Many of the latter have now been stolen. Architect Lyubomir Shinkov has also been insisting on the monument’s restoration, as the project is his. The will of Shinkov and the rest of his 1974 team is the initial idea to be implemented, i.e. the memorial to recreate Bulgaria’s heroic struggle against the Ottoman rule, the Shipka Peak epopee and WWII, but not only the gorilla movement.
March 9 is the feast day of the Church of the Forty Martyrs in the town of Veliko Tarnovo - a place of exceptional importance for the Bulgarian statehood, which worthily preserves the memory of the glorious Tarnovo kings. On March 9, the..
Father Lyubomir Leontinow is one of three priests at the Cathedral of St Boris the Conqueror in Berlin and was the first priest ordained for the Western and Central European Diocese in 1994. After completing his theology studies in Bulgaria, he settled..
After Cheesefare (Forgiveness) Sunday, the Great Lent has begun on March 3. Orthodox Christians will abstain from eating animal food including meat, eggs, milk and dairy products. The Great Lent symbolizes the 40 days which Jesus spent in the..
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