Към историята на християнството в София през ХІХ век Една непубликувана икона на св. Николай Нови Софийски и св. Георги Нови Софийски от Музея за християнско изкуство в Криптата на храм-паметник „Св. Александър Невски“
The History and Iconography of an Unpublished Icon of St Nicholas the New Martyr of Sofia and St George the New Martyr of Sofia from the Museum of Christian Art at the Crypt of St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

Summary/Abstract: The icon has a strange history, marked by a number of unknown facts and is a sad example of the attitude towards Christian values and commemorations in Sofia following the Liberation of the Ottomans. The icon belongs to the collection of the National Institute of Archaeology with Museum, NAIM (Inv. No 924). It features jointly Saint Nicholas the New Martyr of Sofia, the Holy Archangel Michael (C) and St George the New Martyr of Sofia. The icon is dated to the late eighteenth or the early nineteenth century. According to this publication, the icon was commissioned by the Church of The Holy Archangel Michael in Sofia, which was the centre of the cult of Saint Nicholas the New Martyr of Sofia. It was placed over a reliquary holding the relics of both saints or on the iconostasis. Its origin from the Church of The Holy Archangel Michael explains the unusual composition of the figures of the two new martyrs of Sofia coupled with Archangel Michael. In all likelihood, later representations of St Saint Nicholas the New Martyr of Sofia were iconographically modelled on the image of the saint on this icon. The icon was painted at a workshop, working for the churches in Sofia in the early nineteenth century and probably, in the late eighteenth century. The icon-painters were highly skilled, using seventeenth- century models and most numerous and admirably rendered were their icons representing mounted warrior saints.

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