Description of the attraction
The Orthodox Church, consecrated in honor of St. Ivan Rilski, is located in the tourist village of Panichishte. The resort town is located in a picturesque place at the foot of the Rila Mountains. Not far from the village are the famous Dry Lake and the Rila National Natural Park.
On the initiative of several residents of the Rila area, an Orthodox church was built here in 2006. The temple was named in honor of the patron saint of the Bulgarian people, as well as one of the most revered saints in Bulgaria - the Monk Ivan the Wonderworker of Rila. The construction was carried out at the expense of donations from Christians and deductions from the budgets of local enterprises.
The basilica was built in the spirit of traditional Bulgarian church architecture. It is a one-nave building with a large vestibule and a semi-cylindrical apse in the altar part of the building. There is a small tower with a dome on the roof of the building. There is a tower with a bell tower next to the church. Both structures are designed in the same style: plastered white walls, red tiled roofs and gray domes. An original, modern solution is the use of a large number of soft, smooth lines in the architecture of buildings: windows, doorways, decorative niches in the walls, the roof - everything has an arched shape.
