Work

Seven Saints Church, Sofia

The Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church and formerly the Black Mosque is a Bulgarian Orthodox church, located in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It was established in 1547 as an Ottoman mosque, later converted into an Orthodox church, and was inaugurated on 27 July 1903. The church is dedicated in honour of Cyril and Methodius and their five disciples, known collectively in Eastern Orthodoxy as the Sedmochislenitsi.

building

built

1528

Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria

Sacred building

church sacred space mosque Sacred building

Compare this work More works here Map nearby works View city page View region page View country page Open source record

Gallery

Hero image, caption, credit, source, and license are attached to the work record.

Seven Saints Church, Sofia in Sofia, Bulgaria

Gallery

Seven Saints Church, Sofia gallery

Seven Saints Church, Sofia image

Bulgarian Orthodox church in Sofia, Bulgaria

Credit:

Rights: Unknown · unknown

View related work Wikipedia Unknown

Architects

Bureaus

Books

Phase 1 site intelligence

Runtime context from mapping, climate, transit, and access providers

Gathering site context

Pulling place, climate, and nearby mobility signals for this work.

Project source graph

Primary, verified, captured, and archive traces attached to this work

Assembling project-source coverage

Pulling canonical links, verified sources, captured candidates, archive traces, and Phase 2 environmental context.

Phase 3 materials and carbon

Material palette, carbon research, and classification scaffolding around the work

Building the material and carbon layer

Normalizing the palette, checking public classification systems, and preparing product-level research handoffs.

Architects

People attached to this work in the current corpus

Architect

Mimar Sinan

1488-1588 · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Role: lead architect

Primary contributor

Mimar Sinan was the chief Ottoman architect and engineer, responsible for an extraordinary body of imperial mosques, bridges, and civic works that shaped classical Ottoman architecture.

Bureaus

Practices attached to this work in the current corpus

Bureau

Mimar Sinan

studio · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Role: designer

Primary bureau

Mimar Sinan extends the corpus as a studio-level record for the Ottoman imperial architectural tradition across mosques, bridges, and large civic complexes.

Related works

Nearby precedents grouped by architect line, geography, material, typology, and decade.