Romanian Church "Emperors Constantine and Elena"

The church is located on St. Heroilor no. 30, near the Heroes' Cemetery and in the middle of the "Comorovca" neighborhood, between Lupeni, Eroilor, Libertatii streets and the Heroes' Cemetery. The old church was built in 1847. As for the current church, it was built in 1888-1898, the former branch of the St. Nicholas parish until 1943, consecrated in November 1898. The church was built of brick, at the behest of the Russian priest Patapie Lebedov, who encouraged the collection of funds and the provision of cult objects, brought from Ukraine. The shape is of a cross with two towers, one of which houses the belfry with four bells returned in 1935 to the workshops of the Patriarchate in Bucharest with the financial contribution of the city hall, during the time of the parish priest Gh. Racovita. Initially, the church had side doors, facing the pews, closed after the 1977 earthquake. The mural painting was done in 1932 by Geo Cardas (only the painting from the capital was preserved), being redone in 1950 and between 1983-1985 by Victor Negoi 1983-1985, during the time of the priest Lazar Victor. The first archpriest of Tulcea, Fr. Gheorghe Rascanu, awarded with the "Order of the Star of Romania and the Crown of Romania", died on January 29, 1896. The eldest daughter of the archpriest, Ecaterina, born in 1867 in Ismail-Bessarabia, married in 1889 the schoolmaster Brutus Cotov (d. 8.01.1940 in Constanta). The archpriest's other daughter, Maria, also born in Ismail, in 1871, married Ion in 1890. D. Magura, the minor son of the priest "Dimitre Constantinescu dis si Magura" and Maria. Nichifor de Carpat, the last head of the Diocese of Tulcea, who died on the night of July 29 to 30, 1893, is also buried here. Source: Prof. Lelia Postolache via tulcealibrary.ro

Ukrainians from Tulcea are mainly the descendants of the old Cossacks who saw their homeland, Zaporozhian Sicia, abolished in 1775 and tried to restore it in 1813 in the Danube area (Transdanubian Sicia). The church with the "Change in the Face", also known as the Ukrainian Church, as it was built between 1872-1882 by the Russians (Ukrainians) who had their slum here, on the site of an older little church, from 1833. The old house, left awkwardly nearby , at the intersection of Mici street and Păcii street, is the Parish House of the Russian Church, built in 1940-1941.

The impressive church is located on Strada Traian and was erected on the site of the old one in 1872, together with the nearby school, by the German settlers who came from Malcoci and settled in Tulcea. The current Mircea Vodă street in the former German slum was called Strada Nemtească.

The beautiful church is located on Street of Concordia, being raised with the contribution of Tulceni Armenians, from Western Armenia, but also of merchants passing through the city. The foundation stone was laid in 1882, on the place where there was a small chapel since 1830. The place on which the church was built was donated by the Garabetian family and the construction works lasted three years and were started under the coordination of the leaders of the Armenian community , Hampartum Garabetian, Simon Meldovian and Mihram Caragcian. The choice of the patron saint was not accidental, the spiritual patron, St. Gregory the Illuminator, being the one who brought the light of Christianity to Armenia and thanks to whose support, the Armenian king Tiridates adopted Christianity in the year 301, Armenia being the first state in which it became the official religion.

On the Babadag Street, one of the most important streets of the municipality, is located the Synagogue, known as the Israelit Temple, as it appears in official documents and as it is called by the local-jews people, as many as are left. It looks like a construction that has traveled through time, being the only one of its kind on the entire street, guarded on both sides by concrete blocks. In the old days, Babadag street, together with the surrounding streets, was the center of the Jewish quarter of Tulcea, whose number of souls reached, in 1910, approximately two thousand. The Israelite neighborhood, as it was called by the Tulceni, was formed later and more slowly than the Romanian, Greek or Bulgarian ones, perhaps also due to the fact that the Tulcean trade was for a long time a fiefdom of the Greeks and the Armenians. The Israelit Temple is an almost lonely vestige of a large and important community of the city, of which only a few dozen representatives still exist today. From time to time, the beautiful synagogue hosts various cultural events.

The Azizyie Mosque in Tulcea was built in 1863, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Aziz, to whom it is dedicated and from which its name comes. It is one of the largest mosques built by the Ottoman Empire on the territory of Dobrogea, made of carved stone with a thickness of 85 cm. The beautiful construction is equipped with an impressive number of windows (32), their location being 18 in the upper area and ensuring natural lighting for the interior terrace that surrounds the glass on three sides and a number of 14 windows in the lower area. From the beginning, a Turkish school functioned next to the window, which had its headquarters in the building at (currently) 4 Independence Street, still existing today. The window minaret, still visible today, dates back to 1897, when it was rebuilt with funds made available by the Ministry of Religion and Public Instruction.

The church is located right in the center of the city, on Strada Păcii, being known among the locals as the "Church with the Clock" or the "Bulgarian Church". It was built in 1852 by the Bulgarian community and founded by Beiul Dumitrache Teodorof, Stefanache Teodorof and Hagi Veliu, the first and last having their tombstones in the church yard. The bell tower was built in Gothic style in 1857. It is worth saying that the beautiful place and the entire area of ​​5000 square meters were left by compensation from the Bulgarian community with the population exchange in 1940. In 1942, it owned 5 buildings and 2 vacant places. The church has icons painted by Cardas, the monk Sofonie, Hiriciaschi, D. Stanislavov, N. Pavlovici, Hotinci Ivan and the painter Iorgu Nicolae, painted in oil on wood and purchased between 1860-1899.

Church "St. Ioan the Theologian", located on Mihai Eminescu Street in Tulcea, was built by the Russian-Lipovian believers in 1868, in the Comorovca ​​district, after approval was obtained from the Ottoman administration. Architecturally, the place of worship has a pediment marking its entrance from the main facade. The spire is the vertical dominant that sits on the main vertical axis. Neoclassical elements also appear, such as columns and larger or smaller bosses of apparent masonry.

In 1846, with the establishment of the Lipovanian Metropolitanate from Fântâna Albă (Belaia Krinita), most of the persecuted Lipovanian Russians accepted the hierarchy and priests, with the exception of some groups that refused ordination, preferring to recruit their priests directly from Russia. In the north of Dobrogea, the strength of Lipovene spirituality under Ottoman rule is proven by the survival of the bishoprics of Slava and Tulcea, pastors of several churches built by "popovţi" (with priests) and "bezpopovţi" (without priests), as well as the two monasteries of old rite - Uspenia and Vovidenia. After 1917, the practice of bringing priests from Russia became almost impossible, due to the straining of Romanian-Russian relations in the context of the First World War, so that many Lipovene communities were left without shepherds of the faith. In the city of Tulcea, in the old Lipovan settlement on the Monument hill, there is the church dedicated to the "Ascension of the Lord" of the Orthodox believers of the old rite, also known as "staroveri" (of the old faith). On May 3, 1920, the site of this church was consecrated and the foundation stone was laid by diocesan bishop Nicodim, together with priest Vikul and deacon Ignatie. The construction of the church was carried out with the contribution of the Russian-Lipovian parishioners from the slum, who wanted to serve with a priest, and it lasted until the spring of 1921. But the construction works, until their completion, were stopped several times by the authorities local, due to the complaints received from the neighbors opposing the "St. Paraschiva" Church on Gloriai Street (built since 1857) or, as it was also called, "the church without a priest", now facing Novozâbkov, Russia. On May 23, 1921, the new "Ascension of the Lord" church was consecrated. The consecration service was attended by the eparchial bishop Nicodim together with two other bishops from Russia and a council of 9 priests and 6 deacons, as well as many believers from Tulcena and other localities. Since then, the church has been under the jurisdiction of the Old Rite Russian Orthodox Church in Romania, the direction of Fântâna Albă (currently in Ukraine), organized in a Metropolis based in Brăila - the Metropolis of the Old Rite Orthodox Church, officially recognized by the Romanian state from 1946.