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Religious Site Attractions In Northeast Romania

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Religious Site Attractions In Northeast Romania

  • 1. Church of the Three Hierarchs Iasi
    Mănăstirea Trei Ierarhi is a seventeenth-century monastery located in Iaşi, Romania. The monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments and included on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • 3. Humor Monastery Gura Humorului
    Humor Monastery located in Mănăstirea Humorului, about 5 km north of the town of Gura Humorului, Romania. It is a monastery for nuns dedicated to the Dormition of Virgin Mary, or Theotokos. It was constructed in 1530 by Voievod Petru Rareş and his chancellor Teodor Bubuiog. The monastery was built over the foundation of a previous monastery that dated from around 1415. The Humor monastery was closed in 1786 and was not reopened until 1990. The church has been inscribed by UNESCO on its list of World Heritage Sites, as one of the Painted churches of Moldavia.
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  • 4. Dragomirna Monastery Suceava
    The Dragomirna Monastery was built during the first three decades of the 17th century, 15 km from Suceava, in Mitocu Dragomirnei commune. It is the tallest medieval monastery in northern Moldavia and renowned in Orthodox architecture for its unique proportions and intricate details, mostly carved into stone. It lies among forested hills of fir and oak. The history of the monastery started in 1602, when the small church in the graveyard was built and dedicated to Saints Enoch, Elijah and John the Theologian. In 1609 the dedication of the larger church was made to the Descent of the Holy Spirit.
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  • 6. Golia Monastery Iasi
    The Golia Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located in Iaşi, Romania. The monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments. In 2012, the conservation of the Monastery was awarded the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award.
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  • 9. The Painted Monasteries of Bucovina Suceava
    Suceava is the largest city and the seat of Suceava County, situated in the historical region of Bukovina from Central Europe and north-eastern Romania respectively. The city was the capital of the medieval Principality of Moldavia from 1388 to 1565.Between 1775 and 1918, the city was the third largest urban settlement from the Duchy of Bukovina , a constituent province of the Austrian Empire, subsequently a crown land within Austria-Hungary, being only surpassed by Cernăuți and Rădăuți to the north. Throughout this period of time, it fulfilled the task of an important, strategically-located commercial border town with the then Romanian Old Kingdom , receiving a large influx of German-speaking settlers in the process .After 1918, along with the rest of Bukovina, Suceava became part of...
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  • 14. Galata Monastery Iasi
    The Galata Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery for nuns, founded at the end of the sixteenth century by Moldavian Voivode Petru Şchiopul, in the west of Iaşi, Romania. The monastery is located on the top of Galata Hill, and can be easily observed from different locations of Iasi. The church, surrounded by walls with loopholes and provided with a bell tower at the entrance, looks like a fortress, often serving as a place of defense and sometimes as a royal residence. Near the church on the hill, are places that provide panoramic views over the city. Galata Monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments. and consists of the following 4 buildings: Church Resurrection - dating from the period 1582-1583 Prince's Palace - dating back to 1726-1728 The bell tower - dat...
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  • 15. Bogdana Monastery Radauti
    Bogdana Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery in the town of Rădăuți, northern Romania. Its church is the oldest still standing religious building in Moldavia. The monastery was built by Bogdan I of Moldavia somewhere around 1360. It was to become his and some the Muşatini voievods necropolis. Here are buried all the rulers of Moldavia from Bogdan I to Alexandru cel Bun. There are ten graves inside the monastery's church: seven in the naos: Bogdan I Laţcu Voievod an unmarked grave supposedly Maria's–Bogdan I's wife, or Ana's–Laţcu's wife; the grave is at the level of the ground and not above it as the other ones Ştefan I Roman I Bogdan, brother of Alexander the Good Bogdan, son of Alexander the Good three in the pronaos: Doamna Stana, wife of Bogdan III cel Chior and the mo...
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