The Bulgarian St. Stephen Church, also known as the Bulgarian Iron Church, is a Bulgarian Orthodox church in Balat, Istanbul, Turkey. It is famous for being made of prefabricated cast iron elements in
The Bulgarian St. Stephen Church after renovation in 2018
Iron church of St. Stephen in 1898
View from the Golden Horn
The Bulgarian Exarchate was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was restored in 1953.
Firman of Sultan Abdülaziz for the establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchate, February 27, 1870.
Tsarevna Miladinova's Bulgarian boarding-school for girls in Thessaloniki, 1882–1883
Seal of Bulgarian-Exarchate, 1872
Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki in the beginning of the 20th century