Armenian Church of Saint Mary (Biserica Armenească Sfânta Maria) is a 19th-century Armenian Apostolic church in Galați, built between 1858 and 1868 for a congregation whose presence in the Danube port can be traced back to at least the 17th century.
An earlier church was already standing before 1669, when a Catholic missionary recorded an Armenian bishop serving in Galați. That building survived until 1821, when Ottoman troops set it on fire after Greek revolutionaries took refuge inside. A wooden replacement dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God was built five years later on Ulița Armenească.
By the 1850s, plans were underway for a larger masonry church. A committee was formed in 1857 to raise funds and supervise the project, and construction was authorized the following year. Bishop Sarchis of Adrianople laid the foundation stone in July 1858, with German architect Herman Masche responsible for the design. Work stretched over a decade, and changes approved in 1867 increased the height of the tower and dome and enlarged the windows before the church was consecrated in September 1868.
The compact Byzantine-style building is dominated by two octagonal structures: a tall bell tower above the entrance and a broader dome behind it. Doric capitals crown the shallow columns flanking the doorway, while triangular pediments frame the entrance and the façade behind it. Inside, the Bogos Navasart family financed the iconostasis, and paintings by Paul Aburel depict the Apostles Peter and Paul, the Mother of God and Saint John the Baptist. Two smaller altars contain icons of Saint Minas and Saint Jacob.
Among the objects preserved from the church destroyed in 1821 is a silver cross containing a small relic of Saint John the Baptist. Businessman Krikor Hangian financed the addition of the present entrance porch in 1942, and the church later escaped a communist-era demolition proposal for redevelopment of the surrounding area. A major consolidation and restoration was carried out in 2007–2008.
