This small church can easily be overlooked by the careless tourist as it huddles behind a massive wall with just the wooden bell tower sticking out. The courtyard has steps leading down to the tiny church which was built here in the early 19th century on the ruins of an earlier church which fell victim to the fire of 1689, although there are still some old frescoes visible. The current structure is most famous for its wood carvings however. The icon screen displays some of the best Macedonian carving craft around, the work of Petre Filipovski Garkata and Marko and Makarie Frckovski between 1819 and 1824. The deep wood carving has biblical depictions as well as regional flora and fauna, and even has a little self portrait of the artists at work on the screen. Inside the compound there’s also the grave of Macedonian revolutionary Goce Delcev (1872-1903), for whom there is a small museum too.
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