The medieval church “St. George” in the southwestern Bulgarian city of Kyustendil is located in the Kolusha Quarter (Kolusha was formerly a small town absorbed by Kyustendil in 1939).
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The medieval church “St. George” in the southwestern Bulgarian city of Kyustendil is located in the Kolusha Quarter (Kolusha was formerly a small town absorbed by Kyustendil in 1939).
It was constructed in the late 10th-early 11th century, the period of the First Bulgarian Empire (632/680-1018 AD) or in the early years of the period after it was conquered and was part of Byzantium (1018-1185), while its earliest preserved medieval frescoes date back to the 11th-12th century.
The St. George Church in Kyustendil is a cross-domed temple which is 10 meters long and 8.7 meters wide, with three apses, and no narthex. It is one of the oldest preserved medieval churches in Southwest Bulgaria; the different layers of murals inside it date back to three different time periods the 11th-12th century, the 15th-16th century, and the 19th century. The inscriptions on the medieval frescoes are in Greek.
According to the website of the Kyustendil Regional Museum of History, which manages the St. George Church, there are speculations that this