Church of the Virgin Mary Peribleptos — Attraction in Municipality of Ohrid

The specific solution of the inner space of the building as well as the characteristic opus of building with rich ceramoplastic decoration, enable the church of Holy Mary Perybleptos to be counted among the rarely preserved Byzantine monuments from the second half of XIII century, more precisely 1295. The fresco painting is rich of themes with hidden iconographic meanings. It should be emphasized that in this church the painters left their signatures (ten) for the first time and did not remain anonymous. The frescopainting in this church is the first authentic painting work of the painters Mihajlo and Evtihie and it's the oldest wholesome of the so called Reneiscance of the Paleologists, the last big chapter of Byzantine art. The early work of Mihajlo and Evtihie in Ohrid, is decisively focused towards the future and as a basic ensemble of the protopaleologic art, they are an introduction to the wall painting in the new...

Once again, I do not understand how/why a place of worship can only be entered with a fee. I am not a rich man nor a traveler, but I was still fortunate enough to visit almost 20 countries ranging from Canada to Russia, and Hungary to Uzbekistan. I struggle to remember the last time I paid to enter a temple of God. Out of principle, I did not this time as well.

The very bizarre no photos policy is also due for a change. An old phone that hardly takes any photos should not be regarded as some sort of a weapon. I know they want people to pay the fee to see the insides, and less people would do that if the insides were all over the web, but this kind of secrecy does more harm than good to the image of fine people here.

If you are interested in such beautiful Christian Orthodox imagery, which I am a huge fan of, consider crossing the border northward and visit Gracanica and Pec, where you can see excellent example...

Crkva Bogorodice Perivlepte - Ohrid Church has Frescos of Serbian nobility : King Vukasin Mrnjavcevic - co-ruler of Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš V from 1365 to 1371 Emperior Stefan Uros V (son of Emperior Dusan), Uros Nejaki - holy relics (first Gornje Nerodimlje, near Uroševac , after Monasteries of Fruška Gora (since 1690), finally to Jazak monastery Serbia Branko Mladenovic (city of Ohrid with title sevastokrator of Tsar Dusan) – died March 1365 Grgur Brankovic ( son of Branko Mladenovic ) - died 1398 Vuk Brankovic ( son of Branko Mladenovic) battle of Kosovo Field 1389, died in an Ottoman prison...