Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Skopje

The project had become possible because the Ottoman building law, which had once limited the construction or renovation of Christian churches, had been changed.

One year after the completion of the church, a convent school teaching in Bulgarian was built in its courtyard.

[1] According to other report, the incident was triggered by accident by the cook of a German military unit stationed in the service premises of the church.

On the slab was an inscription: "The Main Door of the Bulgarian People's Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin, July 20, 1879."

The report has revealed that the slab was mounted on the church itself, but later was removed and kept for years in a secret place, as not to be destroyed by the Yugoslav authorities.