SENCE, Municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša
Church of the Most Holy Mother of God (Sv. Bogorodica), village of Sence
4-807-073/16 E-ND / 41°40′57.2″N 20°39′34.3″E

The Church of the Most Holy Mother of God in the village of Sence is a three-nave basilica featuring an apse and a gable roof. The church is constructed of rubble stone, while the window openings and the semicircular portals on the western and northern sides are crafted from dressed stone. The roof cornice is formed by two rows of dentil-patterned bricks. The lunette above the northern portal is shaped with a double-pointed Islamic arch, a feature also present on the three-sided apse of the eastern facade; this apse is built from massive dressed stones and profiled with three shallow semicircular niches that terminate at the top with the same characteristic arch. Above the central niche, a circular opening in the shape of a cross has been pierced. Inside the nave, a blind dome rises centrally, while a wooden two-story gallery with a musharabiya (lattice screen) is erected on the western side. The temple does not feature frescoes.
The iconostasis was crafted in deep woodcarving by Mijak woodcarvers (K. Balabanov, A. Nikolovski, D. Ćornakov, Monuments of Culture of Macedonia, Skopje 1980). The icons for the two-tiered iconostasis were painted by: an unknown icon painter in 1841, Dicho Zograf (1855), and Teodosija Kostich from Lazaropole in 1930 (registered icons nos. 9296-9299).