St. Stephen

“St. Stephen” – a cave church at the site of Pancyr-Gorica, 5 km southeast of Ohrid on the road for “St. Naum “. A small cave church tailored to the shape of the rock with a dampen wall on the south side. From the inscription in the niche of the deaconicone, it is learned that the metristic merits of the Church had Great Varos (Ohrid) and the villages shopock, Konjsko and Gorica. The frescoes were incurred at the end of ⅹⅳ c., And the representations of the Mother of God and the Holy Fathers in the altar part, the deisis, St. Petka, Holy Konstantin and Elena and two monks-Anachorets on the north and west wall. Lit.: Vojislav J. ™ Urveni, Byzantzke Freske U Yugoslavians, Belgrade, 1974, 90; Cvetan Grozdanov, Ohrid wall painting from the ⅹⅳ century, Ohrid, 1980, 153-154; Gojko Suboti, Ohrid Picture School of ⅹⅴ century, Ohrid, 1980, 76-77. S. C.


Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис СВЕТИ СТЕФАН

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