After 600 years of oblivion the reconstructed “St. Joan the Precursor” church, the Bishop’s residence Achridos in the Middle Ages, opened doors for a new life. After it was uncovered and restored by the team of Prof. Nikolai Ovcharov it was reconstructed preserving unique frescoes and marble embossments on the original walls some of them till four meter high. The movie is an interesting story presented by the Prof. N. Ovcharov. He takes us into the first years of the Christianity in the Eastern Rodopae Mountain and comеs back in our days.
The movie is synchronized in Bulgarian, Russian and Japanese and has subtitles in German and English.
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Bulgarian English (subtitles) German (subtitles) Russian (audio) Japanese (audio)
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Did You Know
The history of Christianity in Bulgarian area began in the East Rhodopae. In early 5th c AC the bishop Nicketa of Remesiana christenized the Thracians here. It began in the big pagan center of Perpericon. Nowadays the stone altar where this oustanding Christian missionary had preached is exhibited in the Regional Historical Museum in Kurdjali.
