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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, Bitola

Macedonian Orthodox church in North Macedonia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Macedonian: Црква „Св. Богородица“, romanized: Crkva „Sv. Bogorodica“) is a Macedonian Orthodox church of the Prespa-Pelagona Diocese in Bitola, North Macedonia.[1] The church was built in 1870 and consecrated in 1876 by the Bulgarian Exarchist community[2] and has icons dating from the 19th century.[3] Among the church's icons is a čudotvorna ("miraculous") icon of the Virgin Mary that had been stolen from the church in the 1970s and returned in 2017.[4]

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The church is listed as an Object of Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture.[5]

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