Bulgaria’s Government steps up funding for Church Buildings

13/7/2011

Construction projects at sites on the “religion tourism” route and in communities that have no houses of worship is to be stepped up, to a total of 224 000 leva, Bulgaria’s Cabinet decided on July 13 2011.

The funds will cover completion of four churches and repairs to four others.

The Cabinet said that in the past two years, it had helped to pay for new churches in settlements that traditionally were Bulgarian Orthodox Christian.

The funds will be secured by restructuring costs in the 2011 Budget, the Cabinet said.

The support is being handed out as follows: Saints Petar and Pavel church, Komarevo village, Berkovitsa municipality, 20 000 leva; Sveta Troitsa (Holy Trinity), Stryama, Rakovski municipality, 90 000 leva; Archangel Mihail, Krushevo village, Sevlievo municipality, Gabrovo district, 30 000 leva; Church of the Ascension, Gromshin village, Boychinovtsi municipality, 9000 leva; Church of the Ascension, Gorna Luka, Chiprovtsi municipality, 25 000 leva; Saint Paraskeva, Smolyanovtsi, Montana municipality, 10 000 leva; and St Dimitar, Gabrovnitsa village, Montana municipality, 10 000 leva.

Meanwhile, on July 13, news agency BTA reported that Sofia municipality said that it was to finance 27 projects through its culture programme, spending a million leva, of which the largest sum, of more than 149 000 leva, would be spent on preparing for exhibition a grave in the necropolis of St Sofia basilica. The grave will be covered with a glass sarcophagus.

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