Varna Jewish Section
Cemetery Information
Country
Bulgaria
Region
Varna
District
Varna
Settlement
Varna
Site address
186, Vladislav Varnenchik Boulevard.
GPS coordinates
43.219344, 27.890718
Perimeter length
321 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Jewish section
General site condition
Varna has a functioning Jewish cemetery, which is a part of the Central City Cemetery, sometimes called the "Old Cemetery". The Jewish section occupies parcels 47 (62 burials) and 48 (287 burials). The remains of several hundred people from a now demolished earlier cemetery were reburied in 1935. A memorial listing the names of the reinterred individuals marks the place.
Number of existing gravestones
250
Date of oldest tombstone
earliest documented death date on a probably later marker – 1890, earliest documented separate tombstone – 1903.
Date of newest tombstone
operating
Urgency of erecting a fence
Fence is not needed
Land ownership
Other
Preserved construction on site
A memorial marking the reburial of several hundred remains from a now demolished older cemetery.
Drone surveys
No
