Church of St Peter, Byzantine church in Berende, Bulgaria.

The Church of St Peter is a small rectangular single-nave church of crushed stone, measuring 5.50 m by 4.50 m, with walls 85–90 cm thick. It has a semicircular apse on the east, a gabled roof of stone slates, and narrow windows on the apse and south wall. The west entrance has a 2 m wooden door topped by a shallow semicircular niche.

Karel Škorpil and Yordan Ivanov dated the church to the 13th century, linking a now-lost west-wall portrait inscribed "Ivan Asen" to Tsar Ivan Asen II (r. 1218–1241). From the 1920s André Grabar and others placed it in the 14th century, when Tsar Ivan Alexander also used the name Ivan Asen. Bistra Nikolova argues a tsar's inscription makes a court-linked noble founder likelier than a plain cemetery church. It was protected as a national antiquity in 1927 and listed in 1966.

The village cemetery beside the church was used until the early 1980s, which is why the building is often called a cemetery church. A fresco beside the apse is captioned "Saint Cyril the Philosopher", the 9th-century missionary to the Slavs, though the figure is Cyril of Alexandria; the caption suggests locals confused the two saints.

The church stands 800 m west of Berende, within the old village graveyard, near the Nishava River; a natural rock bridge called Mosta lies on the path back to the village. The entrance is a 2 m wooden door in the west wall. The murals have never been restored, and moisture has erased the lowest 0.5 m, so keep clear of the painted walls.

The apse fresco of Saint Cyril of Alexandria is captioned "Saint Cyril the Philosopher", the 9th-century missionary to the Slavs. Scholars read this as evidence that locals confused the two Cyrils and still remembered the missionary saint. The church has been a protected national antiquity since 1927 and was listed as an artistic monument of national importance in 1966.