Editing Varna, Bulgaria (section)

=== Churches ===
{{See also|Dormition Cathedral, Varna}}
[[File:Varna Cathedral 01.jpg|thumb|Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral at night]]
[[File:Warna3.jpg|thumb|left|[[Saint Nicholas]] seamen's church]]
[[File:St-Athanasius-Church-in-Varna.jpg|thumb|left|St. Athanasius church with [[Roman Thermae (Varna)|ancient thermae]] in foreground]]
[[File:Catedral de la Dormición de la Madre de Dios, Varna, Bulgaria, 2016-05-27, DD 115-116 HDR.jpg|thumb|Interior of the Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral]]

Notable old Bulgarian [[Eastern Orthodox|Orthodox]] temples include the metropolitan Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral (of the diocese of Varna and Veliki [[Preslav]]); the early-17th-century Theotokos Panagia (built on the site of an earlier church where Ladislaus III was perhaps buried); the [[Athanasius of Alexandria|St. Athanasius]] (former [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|Greek]] metropolitan cathedral) on the footprint of a razed 10th-century church; the 15th-century [[Parascheva of the Balkans|St. Petka Parashkeva]] chapel; the seamen's church of [[Saint Nicholas]]; the [[Archangel Michael]] chapel, site of the first Bulgarian secular school from the National Revival era; and the Sts. [[Constantine I|Constantine]] and [[Helena of Constantinople|Helena]] church of the 14th-century suburban monastery of the same name.

The remains of a large 4th- to 5th-century stronghold basilica in Dzhanavara Park just south of town are becoming a tourist destination with some exquisite mosaics displayed ''in situ''. The remains of another massive 9th-century basilica adjacent to the scriptorium at Boris I's Theotokos Panagia monastery are being excavated and conserved. A 4th- to 5th-century episcopal basilica north of the Thermae is also being restored. There is also a number of newer Orthodox temples; two, dedicated to apostle Andrew and the local martyr St. Procopius of Varna, are currently under construction. Many smaller Orthodox chapels have mushroomed in the area. In early 2009, Vasil Danev, leader of the ethnic Organization of the United Roma Communities (FORO), said local Roma would also erect an Orthodox chapel.

There is an [[Armenian Apostolic]] church; two Roman Catholic churches, a thriving [[United Methodist Church|Evangelical Methodist]] episcopal church offering organ concerts, active [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] [[Pentecostal]], [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]], and two [[Baptism|Baptist]] churches.

Two old mosques (one is open) have survived since Ottoman times, when there were 18 of them in town, as have two once stately but now dilapidated synagogues, a [[Sephardi]]c and an [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazic]] one, the latter in [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] style (it is undergoing restoration). A new mosque was recently added in the southern Asparuhovo district serving the adjacent [[Muslim Roma]] neighbourhood.

There is also a [[Buddhist]] centre.

On a different note, spiritual master [[Peter Deunov]] started preaching his [[Esoteric Christianity]] doctrine in Varna in the late 1890s, and, in 1899–1908, the yearly meetings of his Synarchic Chain, later known as the Universal White Brotherhood, were convened there.