THE BISHOP'S BASILICA
AND THE ROMAN MOSAIC HERITAGE OF PHILIPPOPOLIS

The National Fund for Culture supports the activities of the Bishop's Basilica of Philippopolis under the program of a one-year targeted subsidy to support the activities of state, municipal and regional institutes.  

The basilica opened its doors on April 18, when we celebrate the International Day for the Preservation of Cultural Monuments. The day has been celebrated since 1984 by UNESCO. Welcome to see the new jewel of Plovdiv! Current prices are: SINGLE TICKET: Adult – 12.00...

The Bishop’s Basilica of Philippopolis is welcoming visitors again. Plovdiv Mayor Zdravko Dimitrov, US Ambassador to Bulgaria Herro Mustafa, America for Bulgaria Foundation President Nancy Schiller, and Bogomil Grozev, director of Ancient Plovdiv Institute, cut the...

The Bishop’s Basilica of Philippopolis will be inaugurated in a virtual ceremony on April 18, 2021, UNESCO World Heritage Day. The ceremony will be broadcast online due to the complex pandemic situation in the country. Watch the livestream on the website of Plovdiv...

  First discovered in 1982 during road construction in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second largest city, the Bishop’s Basilica of Philippopolis is being brought back to life thanks to a public-private partnership between the America for Bulgaria Foundation (ABF), Plovdiv...

Imagine you are standing on a wide-open field. The air is crisp; birds are chirping away nearby. Take 36 steps going in a straight line. Stop and turn to the right. Look ahead and take another 83 steps. You have just outlined the dimensions of the Bishop’s Basilica of...

Plovdiv and the Bishop’s Basilica made it into the New York Times this week after 52 Places Traveler Sebastian Modak spent a week exploring Europe’s oldest consistently inhabited city. History is just one of Plovdiv’s allures, Modak writes; the city has plenty to...

America for Bulgaria Foundation announced the visit to Plovdiv of Lee H. Skolnick and a team of architects and designers from New York City based LHSA+DP. Mr. Skolnick was engaged by America for Bulgaria Foundation to develop the Interpretive Master Plan for the...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) approved the inclusion of the Bishop’s Basilica and the Roman mosaic heritage of Philippopolis on Bulgaria’s Tentative List of significant cultural and natural sites. The announcement was...

Young museumgoers in Sofia celebrated Bulgaria’s national day, March 3, by going back to the country’s beginnings: they learned how to write in Glagolitic, the early Cyrillic script, dressed dolls in traditional Bulgarian attire they made, and practiced the ancient...