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The city of Iași, Romania is home to a large number of historic churches and monasteries. Unless otherwise noted, these belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Cathedral; Old Metropolitan Cathedral; Bărboi Monastery; Bucium Monastery; Cetățuia Monastery; Frumoasa Monastery; Galata Monastery; Golia Monastery; Podgoria Copou ...
The Frumoasa Monastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Frumoasa) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located in Iași, Romania. Built between 1726 and 1733, by Moldavian Prince Grigore II Ghica , [ 1 ] the monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments .
The Galata Monastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Galata) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery for nuns, founded at the end of the sixteenth century by Moldavian Voivode Petru Șchiopul, [1] in the west of Iași, Romania. The monastery is located on the top of Galata Hill and can be easily observed from different locations of Iași. The church ...
Cetățuia hill: Cetățuia Monastery (1668), Hlincea Monastery (1587), Frumoasa Monastery (1733); Galata hill: Galata Monastery (1582), Nicolina balneotherapy and well-being Centre; Copou hill: Podgoria Copou Monastery (1638), Iași Botanical Garden, Copou Park, Exhibition Park, and many monumental buildings; Breazu hill; Șorogari hill;
The monastery is surrounded by tall walls, with corner turrets and a 30 m (98.43 ft) height tower with 120 steps, one of city’s symbols, and houses the Ion Creangă Museum (the writer was curate of the church) and Doxologia Cultural Missionary Centre of the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bukovina. [4] [5]
Holy Name Church is a Catholic church and diocesan shrine, the seat of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Star of the New Evangelization Parish in Columbus, Ohio. It is part of the Diocese of Columbus and located just north of the campus of the Ohio State University. [1] The parish was erected in 1905, and the current Byzantine-Romanesque church was ...
The Hadâmbu Monastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Hadâmbu) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located in Schitu Hadâmbului, Iași County, Romania. Located 30 km (19 mi) southwest of the city of Iași , the monastery, dedicated in 1659, was built by the Greek cellarer Iani Hadâmbul on a place donated to him by Prince Gheorghe Ghica .
1769 – City taken by Russians. [6] 1792 – 9 January: Treaty of Jassy signed in city, ending Russo-Turkish War (1787–92). [6] 1806 – Iași occupied by Russian forces. [7] 1813 – First engineering classes at the School of Surveying and Civil Engineers (part of the Princely Academy) 1822 – City besieged by Turkish forces. [2] 1827 ...