The Assumption of Holy Mary Cathedral

The Cathedral of Varna was built in the end of the 19th century from ashlars from the destroyed fortress walls of the city. Because the resources for the construction were not enough, the Municipality organized a lottery and thus collected about BGN 300 000. The iconostasis was made by the master Ivan Filipov of the town of Debar. Most of the icons were donated in 1901 by the Russian Tsar Nikolay II. In January 1890 the church board decided to lift the dome and to put the bells there, instead of building of a separate belfry. The construction of the today’s bell-tower finished 1941-1943. The completed temple is a cross-dome church with impressive size. In 2001 a unique outer illumination, which accented on the magnificence of the cathedral, was installed.