The building at 19 Moskovska St. is a real architectural gem

The historical and the new building of DSK Bank, attached to each other, are one of the most interesting volume-spatial and compositional solutions in Sofia.

The building of the Central Office of DSK Bank at 19 Moskovska Street was built in 1914. It is a masterpiece of the Secession in Bulgarian architecture, the work of the great Bulgarian architects Georgi Fingov, Dimo Nichev and Nikola Yurukov in the period 1912-1914. designed for the needs of the then Sofia Bank. The building was declared an architectural and artistic monument of culture in 1978, and eight years later – and an essential element of the group monument of culture called “Zone of the historically developed public urban center”. The figure of the god Mercury – the god of trade, exchange and communications – is impressive, and its author is Marin Vassilev, one of the founders of the Bulgarian new sculpture and the first to decorate a public building. Since 1951, when the State Savings Bank (DSK) was established, the building has housed the Central Office of the DSK Bank until today.

The facade of the building features the figure of the god Mercury – god of trade, exchange and communications, Medusa masks on the ground floor and two eagles at the entrance.

Source: www.dskbank.bg