SS Cyril and Methodius, second half of 19 century; the Bulgarian Church of Cyril
and Methodius in Bucharest; tempera on wood; 112 x 65 cm., National History Mu-
seum, inv. No 6087.

At the top the icon is shaped like a threetier arch. The two enlightens are depicted in full height, frontally, in archbishop's vestments. They are holding a crosier and a cross, open books and a scroll with the Slavonic alphabet. The icon comes from the Bulgarian church in Bucharest which was built in the mid-19 century through donations by Bulgarian patriots, among whom were the Bishop Panaret Rashev, Mikhail Kefalov - an eminent enlightener from Qabrovo, Christo Georgiev (one of the brothers who donated a large sum for the University of Sofia to be built when Bulgaria was liberated from Ottoman domination) and numerous other illustrious Bulgarians, enlisted ona commemorative donors' plate now kept at the National History Museum. There was a Bulgarian school with the church. The buildings were demolished in the 1950-ies, but in the 1970-jes the historical monuments, preserved in them, were handed over by Romania to Bulgaria's National History Museum.