Church of St. Athanasius in Varna is located in the city center near the famous Roman baths. The construction of an Orthodox church refers to August 1838, before this place was a little old church of the early 17th century, which burnt two years earlier. According to some versions before it, there were two medieval churches - 13-14 century. Temple of the local population is also called the "Metropolitan Church" because of the fact that the service is conducted the Greek Metropolitan. The Greeks were here until 1914, and in 1920 came to the temple of Russian priests. Only in 1939 the church was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Bulgaria thanks to the Metropolitan Joseph.

Service in the church ceased in 1961, on the orders of local authorities in the church building was a museum of ancient icons. However, thirty years later, on the feast day of St. Athanasius - 18 January in the church service resumed again. Temple operates to this day.

In the church of St. Varna. Athanasius kept iconostasis, is a rare work of art. We create it tryavnenskoy famous wizard school of art using traditional for this style carvings depicting fish, lions, birds of paradise and interlacing vines and oak branches. Each pattern contains solar rosettes. The iconostasis was restored in the seventies of the 20th century, it was returned to the original form. Decorated iconostasis Church of St. Athanasius 28 icons. The image of St. Athanasius was written by Dmitri, a painter from the city of Sozopol.

Before the restoration of the temple in 1838 near the main entrance of the temple was buried Russian officer - Prince Urusov, who participated in the war with the Turks in 1828. After the erection of the new building of the burial was inside the temple - between the input and the episcopal throne. In 1960, the tombstone was transferred to the Museum of the Bulgarian Revival.

Today the temple is a three-nave basilica, large glazed veranda porch recalls. The walls of the church are covered with frescoes of the 19th century that have been preserved quite well. Recently specialists have found that under the paintings is another layer of frescoes, more ancient, which refers to the 17th century. The temple exhibited various ritual church utensils ages 18-19.