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- At the start of the 17th century, the wealthy dwellers of the village of Arnaut Kui, now Poroishte near Razgrad, decided to construct four places of worship bearing the names of Christian Orthodox saints – St. Demetrios, St. Nicholas, St. Virgin Mary, and St. Athanasius. All four temples were erected in the characteristic Arbanas (meaning “Albanian” in Bulgarian) style of sacred architecture – completely built out of stone glued together by mud mortar, semi dug-in, with a single nave and two premises: a narthex (vestibule) and an elongated inner space (nave), lavishly decorated frescoes, and a gable roof. In 1810, during the Russo-Turkish war (1806-1812), the village was set on fire and some of the churches were destroyed. After the end of the war, the members of no more than 30 households returned to Arnaut Kui, gradually mixing with newly arrived families from the Balkan, more precisely from the areas of Elena and Tarnovo Another Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829 brought about more migratory waves of people from the Balkan settling in the village. In the aftermath of the subsequent Treaty of Adrianople of 1829 between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire, the people of Arnaut Kui took the decision of reconstructing the St. Athanasius church. To comply with the existing Ottoman instructions about the height of a Christian temple, the foundations of the building had to be removed by 1.80 m further down in the ground. In this process, a water spring gushed out, whose waters had to be conducted to a recently built slaughterhouse in the same vicinity. Nevertheless, remnants of that groundwater spring still damage parts of the church walls. (en)
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- At the start of the 17th century, the wealthy dwellers of the village of Arnaut Kui, now Poroishte near Razgrad, decided to construct four places of worship bearing the names of Christian Orthodox saints – St. Demetrios, St. Nicholas, St. Virgin Mary, and St. Athanasius. All four temples were erected in the characteristic Arbanas (meaning “Albanian” in Bulgarian) style of sacred architecture – completely built out of stone glued together by mud mortar, semi dug-in, with a single nave and two premises: a narthex (vestibule) and an elongated inner space (nave), lavishly decorated frescoes, and a gable roof. In 1810, during the Russo-Turkish war (1806-1812), the village was set on fire and some of the churches were destroyed. After the end of the war, the members of no more than 30 household (en)
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- The Dug-In Church of St. Athanasius in Poroishte (en)
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