Andrey Damyanov

Andrey Damyanov (; ; ) (1813–1878), or Andreja Damjanović was an architect from the modern-day North Macedonia. His works include more than 40 buildings, most of them churches, built between 1835 and 1878, and spread along the Vardar and Morava Valley, with an extension of his works found in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well.

Origin Damyanov has often been included in histories of the Bulgarian and Serbian architectural literature, but his biography does not reveal the existence of specific national motivation behind his works. He has been also described as a "Macedonian master" in North Macedonia, but Macedonian identity was inchoate at that time. The insignia of Andrey Damyanov as seen on the walls of the St. Panteleimon church in Veles, North Macedonia

Andrey Damyanov comes from a notable Mijak family of architects, Icon-painters and sculptors originating in Debar, western Macedonia, the Renzovski-Zografski-Dospevski.

Andrey had a son, Dame, who worked at the seminary and a church in Prizren, and the church in Kosovska Mitrovica.

Work and legacy

Damyanov and his team (tayfa) travelled and worked throughout the Ottoman Balkans and his works can be found not only in modern-day North Macedonia, but in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina as well.