One of the oldest streets of the “upper” city, Bulgarian Street, still preserves the patriarchal peace and provincial coziness of old Chisinau. The historical buildings have been partially preserved only on the upper part of the street.
Bulgarian Street was named in 1834 in honor of Bulgarians who fled from the Ottoman yoke from across the Danube to Bessarabia and settled in Kishinev. The Bulgarians settled in Kishinev compactly, and already in 1790s it became necessary to connect the houses of Kishinev Bulgarians with the street, which starts from A. Mateevich Street (former Sadovaya Street). In the past centuries this part of the city was called Galbinskaya side (Yellow). To the left and right there are still residential houses of the early twentieth century.
Not far away is the old St. George Church. It was built in 1830 on the funds of the Bulgarian community. The construction of the church combines different architectural solutions, characteristic, on the one hand, for classicism, and on the other hand – for Moldovan folk architecture. The church was named in honor of the fearless Bulgarian priest George. Back in 1814, he began to collect materials and funds for the construction of this temple. For the missing funds he dared, accompanied by a member of the community to go to fellow believers-Bulgarians in Turkey. Already returning home with a large sum of money, the pilgrims came across Muslims. Father George was subjected to terrible torture. His companion managed to bring the collected donations to Kishinev. He told everyone about the martyrdom of the bishop.