The Church of St. George in Sofia was built as Roman baths in the early 4th century. The article names no architect or client, and the infobox lists its type as Roman baths. It is a late antique red brick rotunda, a cylindrical domed structure on a square base with semicircular corner niches. The dome is 45 feet (13.7 m) high, and its prophet frescoes are over 6.6 feet (2 m) tall.
The building became a church inside the walls of Serdica and was later used as a baptistery. Relics of John of Rila were kept here. The Hungarians took them in 1183, and they returned in 1187. In 1469 they moved to Rila Monastery.
It served as a mosque in the 16th century, and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church reclaimed it in the mid-19th century. The article gives conflicting counts of three and five fresco layers.
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