Saint Nicholas of Sofia Church, Orthodox church in central Sofia, Bulgaria

Saint Nicholas of Sofia Church is a parish church of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in the Yuchbunar area of central Sofia, built in 1900 to a design by Anton Tornyov. It is a neo-Byzantine structure with rich exterior decoration, including multicoloured friezes. Inside, the openwork iconostasis was carved by Lazar and Nestor Aleksiev of the Debar school, and the church is the second-largest Orthodox temple in Sofia after Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

Construction began on 3 October 1896 in the Yuchbunar refugee quarter, led by a church board including priest Anton Zhostov. The completed church was consecrated on 3 December 1900 by Metropolitan Partenius of Sofia. It was built to a design by Anton Tornyov in the Neo-Byzantine style, on the spot where tradition holds that its patron, Saint Nicholas of Sofia, was killed by the Turks.

The church keeps an icon and a reliquary of Saint Nicholas of Sofia, carried in procession on the evening of 16 May to a chapel at Tsar Simeon Street 125, about 500 m away, where the saint was killed. On 17 May the relics are displayed all day, and a moleben canon is sung before them every Thursday morning.

The church is located behind the Rila Hotel in the city center and is open daily for visitors. You can come during regular services or visit at other times to pray quietly.

The church is the second-largest Orthodox temple in Sofia, after the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. A few steps away stand the monument to the volunteers who died in 1913 during the siege of Adrianople and a bust of the Bulgarian exarch Antim.