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South of the National Revival Museum is pl. Ekzarh Iosif, where elderly Varnentsi gather for an evening chat, and locals bring jerry cans and flagons to collect the hot mineral water gushing from a public fountain. Just beyond, at the junction of Koloni and Kliment, is a small nineteenth-century Armenian church , squeezed into the corner of a schoolyard. Serving a local population of about 3000, the church contains naive icons covered in Armenian script. Outside, a small tablet commemorates the genocide of 1915, when up to one and a half million Armenians lost their lives at the hands of the Ottomans - suggesting a shared history of suffering in which both Armenians and Bulgarians find common cause. Of more historical value, however, are the intricately carved iconostasis and bishop's throne of the seventeenth-century Church of Sveta Bogoroditsa at Han Krum 19, a partly sunken church whose tower was added later once Ottoman restrictions had been removed.
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