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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 ...
Santa María de Vallbona Monastery, Lleida Province; Santa María la Real de Fitero Monastery, Navarre; Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas Monastery, Burgos Province; Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey, Burgos Province; Suso Monastery, San Millán de la Cogolla, La Rioja Province; Yuso Monastery, San Millán de la Cogolla, La Rioja Province
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 .
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 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 ...
Mănăstirea Trei Ierarhi (Monastery of the Three Hierarchs) is a seventeenth-century monastery located in Iași, Romania. The monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments [ 1 ] and included on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites .
It is unknown why the somewhat unusual name of Spyridon was selected: this is possibly because he was the patron saint of the Ghica family, or because his canon was printed at Iași in 1750. The church was initially used as a monastery, and in 1763, Ecumenical Patriarch Samuel declared it stauropegic , making its archimandrite the titular ...
The Golia Monastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Golia) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery located in Iaşi, Romania. The monastery is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments. [1] In 2012, the conservation of the Monastery was awarded the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award. [2] [3]