page_title: Mariupol
section_title: Religious communities
hierarchical_section_title: Mariupol / Demographics / Religious communities
context_page_description: Mariupol is a city of regional significance in south eastern Ukraine, situated on the north coast of the Sea of Azov at the mouth of the Kalmius river, in the Pryazovia region. It is the tenth-largest city in Ukraine, and the second largest in the Donetsk Oblast with a population of 449,498. The city is largely and traditionally Russophone, while ethnically the population is divided about evenly between Ukrainians and Russians. There is also a significant ethnic Greek minority in the city. Mariupol was founded on the site of a former Cossack encampment named Kalmius and granted city rights in 1778. It has been a centre for the grain trade, metallurgy, and heavy engineering, including the Illich Steel & Iron Works and Azovstal. Mariupol has played a key role in the industrialization of Ukraine.
  Due to the Soviet authorities frequently renaming cities after Communist leaders, the city was known as Zhdanov, after the Soviet functionary Andrei Zhdanov, between 1948 and 1989. Today, Mariupol remains a centre for industry, as well as higher education and business.
context_section_description: 11 churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchy.
  3 churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchy.
  52 various religious communities.
  The city is adorned by the St. Nicholas Cathedral (in the Tsentralnyi borough) and other churches of the city, namely:
  St. Nicholas (Primorsky borough)
  St. Michael (Livoberezhnyi borough)
  St. Preobrazheniye ("Holy Transfiguration") (Primorsky borough)
  St. Ilya (Ilyichevsky borough)
  Uspensky ("Assumption") (Livoberezhnyi borough)
  St. Vladimir (Livoberezhnyi borough)
  St. Amvrosy Optinsky (Illyichevsky borough, Volonterobvka)
  St. Varlampy (Illyichevsky borough, Mirny)
  St. George (Illyichevsky borough, Sartana)
  Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Illyichevsky borough, Talakovka)
  St. Boris & Gleb (Prymorsky borough, Moryakov)
  St. Crimeajewel
  In addition to churches, there are 3 mosques around the city.
caption: Sultan Suleiman Mosque in Mariupol
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