Category: Administrative buildings

55, Hristo Botev Blvd. In 1912, following an architectural competition, begins construction of the capital’s first monumental public building – the Palace of Sofia Region. It intends to bring under one roof all the district offices –government, medical and veterinary offices, engineers and architects, school inspectors, Court of Auditors, Forestry department, etc. The international jury,…

3, Dyakon Ignatii Str. In 1879, at 3, Dyakon Ignatii Street begins the construction of the building of the Ministry of War (today – Ministry of Defence), designed by Arch. Antonin Kolar. As with most of the capital’s public buildings, it echoes European models, while accounting for the Bulgarian specifics and scale, sparing no expenditure.…

2, Narodno Sabranie Sq. The building of the National Assembly is one of the first public buildings raised after the Liberation. It is designed by Konstantin Jovanović (1849 – 1923) – an architect of Bulgarian ancestry, born in Belgrade. In 1881, he is commissioned by the Minister of Education, Konstantin Jireček for the Sofia and…

1, General Gurko Str. In 1880, the Sofia City Council voted to place the city government temporarily at the house of the prominent physician and politician, Dr. Mincho Tsachev, occupying the corner of General Gurko and Vasil Levski (today General Gurko and Dyakon Ignatii) streets. The Town Hall remained there until 1968, when in the…

2, Patriarch Evtimii Blvd. The house of the municipal engineer Mikhail Momchilov and his Austrian wife, Baroness Philippines von Gleichen stands proudly from the throng of beautiful buildings remaining from the late-19th-century Sofia. Momchilov completes his education in Dresden and returns to Bulgaria after great success in Europe, including a collaboration with none other than…