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Church of St. Saviour
A half-buried Ottoman-era church with a magnificent carved wooden iconostasis.
- Open
- Closed Mondays
- Price
- Paid; a small fee
- Time Needed
- 20 minutes
- Address
- Makarie Frčkoski 8, 1000 SkopjeDirections
- Getting There
- Below the fortress, at the edge of the Old Bazaar.
Why Go
Under the Ottomans, churches could be no taller than mosques, so this one was sunk partly into the ground. Its walnut iconostasis, carved in the 1820s, is crowded with biblical scenes and tiny self-portraits of the carvers.
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