Church of the "Coverage of the Mother of God"
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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
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