Aziziye Mosque

The building was built in the second half of the 19th century by the Greek merchant Ilie Lichiardopol, hence the name. After 1940, Teodor Lichiardopol, the rightful heir, sells the building to the Ministry of Public Instruction as a school premises. According to the accounts of some notables from Tulce, in the hall with the mural painting on the first floor of the building, on November 18, 1878, the documents for the takeover of Dobrogea by the Romanian authorities were signed. Unfortunately, the building is a ruin today.

The building was built in 1868, being ordered by the governor of Sangeac Tulcea, Ismail Bey Paşa, as the headquarters for the Turkish high school. The building was erected through the contributions of the inhabitants and with the financial support of the Circassians established in the city, who, being exempt from taxes for a while, offered money for its construction. After Ismail Bey Pasha's forced departure from the city, the building remained unused for a while and was then turned into a barracks. Since 1878, the premises have been used as the seat of the Tulcea City Hall and since 1968 of the People's Council of the city of Tulcea. In recent years, the building housed the headquarters of some companies, the most recent being Deltacons. As in the case of the former Turkish school, we hope that this historic building will be rehabilitated and utilized for cultural-tourist purposes.

The Turkish School operated next to the Aziziye Window, being inaugurated in 1863, during the reign of Sultan Abdulaziz. The building was built in the architectural style specific to the period, with a ground floor, a first floor and a hipped roof. In this area was the Turkish slum, where the main public edifices of the city, which became the residence of the sangeac, were located: the window, the pasha's mansion, the bazaar, the port and others. We hope that this historic building will regain its former glory and importance.

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.

It used to be called the Mocăneasc Church, built in 1876 by the Mocans from Prislav, during the time when the St. Nicholas Cathedral was closed, by order of the Turkish rule. Photo credit: Lelia Postolache & Felix Lucian Neculai

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 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.