List of religious buildings in Romania
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This is a list of Romanian Orthodox monasteries:
- Agapia MonasteryAgapia MonasteryThe Agapia Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located 9 km west of Târgu Neamţ, in Agapia Commune, Neamţ County. It was built between 1642 and 1647 by Romanian Voivode Vasile Lupu. The church, restored and modified several times during the centuries was painted by Nicolae Grigorescu,...
- Antim MonasteryAntim MonasteryThe Antim Monastery is located in Bucharest, Romania on Mitropolit Antim Ivireanu Street, no. 29. It was built between 1713 and 1715 by Saint Antim Ivireanu, at that time a Metropolitan Bishop of Romania. The buildings were restored by Patriarch Justinian Marina in the 1950s. As of 2005, there are...
- Bârnova MonasteryBârnova MonasteryThe Bârnova Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located in Bârnova, Iaşi metropolitan area, Moldavia, Romania.Built in 1628, by Moldavian Voivode Miron Barnovschi-Movilă, the monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments....
- Bistriţa MonasteryBistrita MonasteryThe Bistriţa Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located 8 km west of Piatra Neamţ. It was dedicated in 1402 by Romanian Voivode Alexandru cel Bun whose remains are buried here....
- Bogdana MonasteryBogdana MonasteryBogdana Monastery is an Eastern 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....
- Brebu MonasteryBrebu MonasteryThe Brebu Monastery in Romania is one of the most important architectural achievements of the rule of Matei Basarab and of Romanian art in the 17th century. Constructions began in 1640....
- Cetăţuia MonasteryCetăţuia MonasteryThe Cetăţuia Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located in Iaşi, Romania. The monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments.-History:...
- Cheia MonasteryCheiaCheia is a mountain resort, 60 kilometers north of Ploieşti, Prahova county, Romania.Situated in the Teleajen Valley, it is surrounded by Ciucaş Mountain and Zăganu Mountain....
- Ciolanu MonasteryCiolanu MonasteryThe Ciolanu Monastery is a monastery of Eastern Orthodox monks, located in the Tisău commune, Buzău County, Romania. It was erected around 1570 by Dumitru Ciolanu, a boyar from Buzău, whose name it bears, together with the Sorescu boyar family from the nearby Verneşti commune.The compound contains...
- Cozia MonasteryCozia MonasteryCozia Monastery, erected close to Călimănești by Mircea cel Bătrân in 1388 and housing his tomb, is one of the most valuable monuments of national medieval art and architecture in Romania....
- Curtea de Argeş Monastery
- Dealu MonasteryDealu MonasteryDealu Monastery is a 15th century monastery in Dâmboviţa County, Romania, located 6 km north of Târgovişte.The church of the monastery is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.-Sources and external links:...
- Dealu Mare MonasteryDealu Mare MonasteryDealu Mare Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery in Romania, located in the commune of Borăscu, Gorj County.-History:On the table that describes the history of the Dealu Mare Monastery, one can read:...
- Dobrovăţ MonasteryDobrovăţ MonasteryThe Dobrovăţ Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located in Dobrovăț-Ruși, Iaşi County, Romania. The monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments.-History:...
- Dragomirna MonasteryDragomirnaThe 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 Bucovina and renowned in Orthodox architecture for its unique proportions and intricate details, mostly carved into...
- Frumoasa MonasteryFrumoasa MonasteryThe Frumoasa Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located in Iaşi, Romania.Built between 1726 and 1733, by Moldavian Prince Grigore II Ghica, the monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments.-External links:...
- Galata MonasteryGalata MonasteryThe Galata Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located in Iaşi, Romania.Built between 1582 and 1584, by Moldavian Voivode Petru Şchiopul, the monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments.-External links:...
- Glavacioc MonasteryGlavacioc MonasteryThe Glavacioc Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery situated in Argeş departament at the coordinates .-History:It is generally considered it was built during the reign of Mircea I of Wallachia, who donated the village of Călugăreni, Giurgiu to the monastery...
- Golia MonasteryGolia MonasteryThe Golia Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located in Iaşi, Romania. The monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments.-History:...
- Hadâmbu MonasteryHadâmbu MonasteryThe Hadâmbu Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located in Schitu Hadâmbului, Iaşi County, Romania.Located southwest of the city of Iaşi, the monastery, dedicated in 1659, was built by the Greek cellarer Iani Hadâmbul on a place donated to him by Prince Gheorghe Ghica...
- Horezu MonasteryMonastery of HorezuThe Monastery of Horezu was founded in 1690 by Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu in the town of Horezu, Wallachia, Romania. It is considered to be a masterpiece of "Brâncovenesc style", known for its architectural purity and balance, the richness of its sculpted detail, its treatment of religious...
- Humor MonasteryHumor MonasteryHumor 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...
- Moldoviţa Monastery
- Neamţ MonasteryNeamt MonasteryThe Neamţ Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox religious settlement, one of the oldest and most important of its kind in Romania. It was built in 14th century, and it is an example of medieval Moldavian architecture...
- Plăviceni MonasteryPlăviceni MonasteryPlăviceni Monastery, also called Aluniş Monastery, is located in the south of Romania, in the village of Plopii-Slăviteşti in Teleorman County, 33 km northwest of Turnu Măgurele and 30 km south of Drăgăneşti-Olt...
- Putna MonasteryPutna MonasteryThe Putna monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery, one of the most important cultural, religious and artistic centers established in medieval Moldavia; as with many others, it was built and dedicated by Prince Stephen the Great. Putna was founded on the lands perambulated by the Putna...
- Prodromos (Mount Athos)Prodromos (Mount Athos)The Romanian Skete Prodromos is a Romanian cenobitic skete belonging to the Great Lavra Monastery, located in the eastern extremity of the Eastern Orthodox Monastic State of the Holy Mountain Athos, between the Aegean Sea in the East and the peak of Athos rising 2033 m in the West, nearby the...
, ecclesiastically under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of ConstantinopleEcumenical Patriarchate of ConstantinopleThe Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople , part of the wider Orthodox Church, is one of the fourteen autocephalous churches within the communion of Orthodox Christianity... - Radu Vodă MonasteryRadu Voda Monastery-Paleolithic:Because of its favorable environment and the elevated terrain close to a big river, the area of the monastery was inhabited starting from the Paleolithic . It is the site of the oldest known settlement on the territory of Romania...
- Răteşti MonasteryRatesti MonasteryThe Răteşti Monastery is a monastery of Eastern Orthodox nuns located in the Berca commune in the Buzău County in Romania, on the left bank of the Buzău river.-History:...
- Sfânta Treime Monastery
- Sinaia MonasterySinaia MonasteryThe Sinaia Monastery, located in Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania, was founded by Prince Mihail Cantacuzino in 1695 and named after the great Sinai Monastery on Mount Sinai. As of 2005, it is inhabited by 13 Christian Orthodox monks led by hegumen Macarie Bogus...
- Stavropoleos Monastery
- Suceviţa MonasterySucevita MonasterySucevița Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox convent situated in the Northeastern part of Romania. It is situated near the Suceviţa River, in the village Sucevița, 18 km away from the city of Rădăuţi, Suceava County. It is located in the southern part of the historical region of Bukovina...
- Trei Ierarhi MonasteryTrei Ierarhi MonasteryBiserica 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....
- Voroneţ MonasteryVoronet MonasteryVoroneț is a monastery in Romania, located in the town of Gura Humorului, Moldavia. It is one of the famous painted monasteries from southern Bukovina, in Suceava County...
- Zamfira MonasteryZamfira MonasteryThe Zamfira monastery is a monastery of Eastern Orthodox nuns, located in the Lipăneşti commune, Prahova County, Romania.-History:The church was erected in 1743, at the initiative of Zamfira Apostoli, the widow of a wealthy Wallachian salesman...