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Due to its location, the Church of St Peter is often described as a cemetery church. However, scholar Bistra
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The Church of St Peter has been protected as a national antiquity since 1927. In 1966, it was listed as an artistic monument of culture of national importance. However, as of 2011, the frescoes have never during the church's existence undergone restoration or conservation and remain threatened. In
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of the portrait clearly identify it as an image of Cyril of
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Though located next to the village's graveyard and often interpreted as a cemetery church, the Church of St Peter may have been in some way related to the
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building constructed out of crushed stone; the walls range in thickness from 85 to 90 cm (33 to 35 in). It is accessible via an entrance on its west wall. The wooden door is 2 m (6.6 ft) high and is topped by a shallow semicircular
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and Yordan Ivanov, ascribed it to the 13th century owing to a now-lost exterior mural of a person on the west wall of the church, described by one source as an image of a
Bulgarian tsar. The image bears the following caption in
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roof is made of stone slates. In terms of length and width, the church measures 5.50 m × 4.50 m (18.0 ft × 14.8 ft).
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the lowest parts, up to 0.5 m (1.6 ft) from the floor, the murals have been entirely erased by moisture. Moisture and the resulting
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is semicircular and attached to the church's east side. The church features a semicircular vault and its
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and autocrat Bulga". Škorpil and Ivanov identified the person mentioned in the inscription as
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