İsmail, Tomarova Câmii

Tomarova (Reni) is a Danube-side settlement in Izmail, Ukraine, at the intersection of the borders of Ukraine, Romania and Moldova, according to the current administrative organization. After the Crimean War, the town of Tomarova was abandoned by the Turks when the region fell under Russian rule. In August 1809, the inhabitants of the town of Tomarova wrote a letter to Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni, Metropolitan and Exarch of Moldova, Romania and Bessarabia, informing him that they had no church in the town, and that they were collecting money to build a new stone church. With the Metropolitan's permission, the Tomarova mosque was consecrated in the name of John the Baptist on August 4, 1809 and converted into an Orthodox church under the Russian Patriarchate.