Cathedral Church of St. Sophia

The archaeological excavations of the cathedral church of St.Sophia which is situated at the foot of the hilly part of Ohrid and close to the Lake, show that it was built on the foundations of an Early Christian basilica.

The church was reconstructed and decorated with frescoes at the time of Archbishop Leo, 1037 – 56.A unique gallery of paintings, relief and architecture created in the course of four decades, from the 11th to the 14th centuries, St. Sophia’s church is one of the most important mediaeval monuments in Ohrid and indeed in the whole of Macedonia.

Together with the cathedral church St. Sophia in Kiev, in the Ukraine, it contains the larger number of frescoes from the 11th century in the mediaeval art of Europe.