page_title: Naum Torbov
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Naum Torbov / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Central Market Hall, Sofia by Architect Naum Torbov
context_page_description: Naum Torbov was a Bulgarian architect, born in 1880, deceased in 1952.
context_section_description: Torbov was born on 18 November 1880 in Gopesh village in the Ottoman Macedonia. His family emigrated to the Principality of Bulgaria and settled in the town of Oryahovo. Naum enrolled in architecture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and he graduated in 1904. After the studies he came back to Bulgaria and started working at the Ministry of Public Buildings and Roads. In 1906 Torbov was appointed to the post of head of the department of architecture by the Sofia municipality. In 1908 he started his private practice.
  Naum Torbov was a follower of the national romantic stream in architecture. More than a hundred public, residential and industrial buildings are constructed by his projects in the towns of Sofia, Oryahovo, Silistra, Botevgrad, Mezdra.
caption: The Central Market Hall
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