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unusual facts about Saint Paraskevi


Paraskevi of Iconium

:For other saints named Paraskevi or Parascheva, see Saint Paraskevi.


Ayios Mamas

A second small church on the southern outskirts of the village is dedicated to Saint Paraskevi and its interior is covered with wall paintings.

Skotino cave

It is also known as Agia Paraskevi cave from the church dedicated to Saint Paraskevi built on top of it.

Zograf Monastery

The Zograf Monastery owns a library of major significance to Bulgarian culture, preserving medieval manuscripts such as a 15th-century copy of the passional of Saint Naum of Ohrid, the 14th-century passional of Saint Paraskevi, the original draft of Paisius of Hilendar's Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya and the History of Zograf.


see also

Hayredin

The local Bulgarian Orthodox church of Saint Paraskeva was built in 1858-1862, and the Prosveta community centre (chitalishte) was founded in 1909.

Medkovets

The Church of Saint Paraskeva was built in 1859, with the iconostasis carved by the Bulgarian masters Filipovi from the region of Debar, Vardar Macedonia.

Petrova Niva

It is among the 100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria; a monument to the event was built in the 1950s and a church dedicated to Saint Petka was constructed in 2003 for the congress' centennial anniversary, as well as a museum.

Vale of Tempe

In the thirteenth century AD a church dedicated to Aghia (Saint) Paraskevi was erected in the valley.

Velventos

Velventos contains also many late Byzantine and post-Byzantine monuments and temples, among them the 12th-century church of Saint Minas and the 14th-century church of Saint Paraskevi.