Churches in North Macedonia (18)

In Strumica there is the Church of St. Cyril and Methodius - Strumica, Religious Building (Architecture, Church). The coordinates of Church of St. Cyril and Methodius - Strumica are 41.4344 (North), 22.6357 (East). To help you have a better idea here is the link to a street view of Church of St. Cyril and Methodius - Strumica. We are collecting information to complete this page, depending on the type of element it would be interesting to receive additional data such as historical information or people related to Church of St. Cyril and Methodius - Strumica, or anything else in general that can help the user who is consulting the map of Strumica or North Macedonia to answer the questions that they might have regarding Church of St. Cyril and Methodius - Strumica.

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The monastery complex St. Leontius is located in the village of Vodocha, 4 km east of Strumica. Three churches (eastern, western and medial) were discovered on the site, and three phases of the fresco painting of their interiors, dining rooms, commercial buildings, and the two baths and the multilayered Christian necropolis where burials took place continuously from the 14th to the 20th century. The first archaeological excavations at this site were performed by Vasil Lahtov in the period 1961-1962. In 1973/74, Petar Miljkovic-Pepek performed research on the basis of which he prepared a project for the conservation and restoration of the church. The most extensive excavations, mostly directed at the Vodocha necropolis, were performed by the archaeologist Jovan Ananiev in the period from 1979 to 2003, where approximately 1,000 graves were discovered. From the period of Early Christianity, basic basilica's parts have been preserved, parts with 5th and 6th century marble decorative art. Afterwards, in the 9th century, the eastern, three domed Episcopal church was built. As an episocopal church, it was mentioned in 1018 Basil II's Declaration, after the fall of Samoil's state. Today, the altar apse, the proskomedia and the sacristy are preserved. The original iconostasis was marble, and the floor was covered with marble plates, too. The demolition of the church was connected to the fall of Samoil's state and the fall of Strumica under Byzantine rule in 1018. In the period from 1018 to 1037, the small cruciform western dome church of the Holy Mother of God Eleusa and of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple was built. The medial dome church of the Vodoche complex, built at the beginning of the 12th century, was dedicated to St. Leontius, a martyr of the city of Tripoli in the district of Phoenicia. The church was the episcopal seat from which the synthronon of the altar apse was preserved and the narthex of the west. It had open porches on the south side. The fresco painting of the interior of the complex of Vodocha churches was done in three different centuries: the 10th century, the 11th century and the 12th century. Apart from the fragmentary preservation, the high artistic qualities of the painted representations of the saints are obvious. The fresco painting of the western Vodocha Church of the Holy Mother of God Eleusa and of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple was built; depict the life and childhood of Saint Mary, as well as the cycle of church holidays. Also, the figures of St. Isavrios and St. Euplos in full growth were painted, in the period of 1018-1037. The interior of the medial Vodocha Church of St. Leontius was fresco painted, too, and the preserved fragmented remains in the lunette above the apse with the representation of Saint Mary indicates the stylistic and the artistic features of the 12th century Byzantine painting.

7km west of the city of Strumica, in the village of Veljusa, there is a medieval church from the Byzantine period, 'The Most Holy Theotokos the Merciful (Eleusa)', dedicated to the religious holiday of the 'Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple'. The preserved records of the two architraves indicate that the church was built by the monk, later the Strumica bishop Manuil in 1080. The sources testify that 'The Most Holy Theotokos the Merciful (Eleusa)' Monastery Church, located on a limestone rock on the northern slopes of the Elenica Mountain, was built above the former village of Paleokastro in the Strumica theme (Byzantine district). The monastery was mentioned in the 1085 decrees of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. In 1091, or 1094, he personally visited the monastery and wrote about his admiration of the monastery.The church's architectural structures had four conches and is the only object as such in Macedonia that dates from the 11th century. The interior's dome is a cruciform and it is narrow. Above the all three main parts of the church: the nave with the altar, the narthex and the southern dome of the Saint Savior, are variously dimensioned elevated domes with polygonal tambours, beautified with ceramoplastic decoration and polychromatic resurgence of the facades. The south facade of the church is fresco-painted. In its upper central part, there is a small and abundantly profiled rosette with rack-wheeled coronal, and, below, between the bifora, there is a splendid cross-shaped bipartite ornament. The fresco painting of the church was performed in three different time periods: the altar, the under dome in the naos and the walls, the conches and the chapel in 1085; the porch in 1164, and the naos in the 19th century, with visible local painting influences. The frescos in the church were with iconographic symbolic contents and representations from the Old Testament and the New Testament. Liturgical service of the holy hierarchs with the Hetoimasia (Sacrifice of Christ) and the Mother of God with Jesus Christ sitting on the throne in the altar space.In the central dome area Jesus Christ Almighty is depicted, while under the walls of the tombs are represented Holy Mother of God, St. John the Baptist, two archangels and four prophets (Hezekiah, Habakkuk, Jeremiah, and David). In the north end of the monastery is presented the descending of Jesus Christ in hell, and in the south end is presented Candle mass. While in the southern chapel is presented St. Spas and in the dome Jesus Christ Emanuel. In the naos of the church, there is the altar rail made of marble, with designed vegetative and geometric motifs made in bas relief. The floor mosaic contains geometric motifs that follow the basics of the apses (conches) in the central part of the naos, the narthex and the southern chapel. 

The Church of Saint Demetrius (Macedonian: Црква 'Св. Димитриј') is the main Macedonian Orthodox church of Bitola, North Macedonia, part of the Prespa-Pelagonia Dicoese. It was built in 1830 and its most remarkable feature is considered to be its wood-carved iconostasis. The church bell tower was built in 1936. Saint Demetrius is listed as an Object of Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture. The iconostasis includes icons from 1842, done by Mihail Aganost and his son Nikolai Mihailov. Icons depicting Jesus Christ, the Introduction of the Virgin, the Baptism of Christ, the Entering into Jerusalem, the Crucifixion, Pentecost, and the Denial of Thomas, dated around 1730 and painted by David Selenica are today housed in the Museum of Macedonia in Skopje.

The Monastery of Treskavec (Macedonian: Манастир Трескавец), or St. Bogorodica, is a monastery situated on the rocky Mount Zlatovrv, 8 km north of Prilep, in North Macedonia. Built in the 12th century, it currently has only one monk. The monastery possesses a large collection of Byzantine frescoes. The oldest remaining date from the 15th century. It was rebuilt in the 14th century by Serbian kings Stefan Milutin and Stefan Dušan. In the mid-16th century it was renovated by knez Dimitrije Pepić (d. 1566) of Kratovo. The monastery was largely destroyed by a fire in the early 2010s, although the church remained untouched. The monastery was the burial place of Serbian noblemen Dabiživ Čihorić and Gradislav Borilović.

The Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart is one of the first catholic churches in this area and is a very remarkable object in Shirok Sokak, the main street in Bitola. It was founded in 1856 by Lazar's Mission with the missionary Lepavec as its leader. It was located in a newly built object bought with the financial support of the French Government in accordance with the vice-consul of that time, mister Balen De Buga. The adaptation was finished very quickly, and the church was canonized in the same year on the first day of Easter. It was renovated many times. The church has got its present appearance after reconstruction due to bombardment of the town during the First World War and the Balkan Wars as well, and also because of the explosion of the Dzapane (Turk military arsenal). The west facade and the interior are with neo Gothic characteristic: monumentally high central portal finished with Gothic refracted arch, typical for windows, centrally placed bell and crossed vaults with stressed ribs in the interior which is amply decorated. The mission, which primarily consisted of church and school, used to function independently and was of 'Domus formata' type, which means it informed the headquarters in Paris, or the 'City Hall' (kurija) about its work. The object known as 'Lokanda' (reception of strangers) was adapted as a hotel for high-class military personnel and was purchased for 12000 francs by the French Government. It owns an extremely ample library and rich archive information about the catholic mission and schools opened at that time in Bitola, spreading its propaganda in that way. Some mission schools, like the French School of Saint Vensan's Sisters Ecole Française des Soeurs de Saint Vincent de Paul used to work for a very long time, and within the school there was a dispensary for medical treatment of poor people up to 1947. 

The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Macedonian: Црква 'Св. Богородица') is a Macedonian Orthodox church of the Prespa-Pelagona Diocese in Bitola, North Macedonia. Built in 1870, and consecrated in 1876, the church's icon collection contains icons dating from the 19th century. Among the church's icons is a miraculous (čudotvorna) icon of the Virgin Mary that had been stolen from the church in the 1970s and returned in 2017. The church is listed as an Object of Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture.