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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 .
Ganden Monastery, Tibet. Lists of monasteries cover monasteries, buildings or complexes of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). The lists are organized by country or territory, by denomination, by order and by form.
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 ...
List of abbeys and priories is a link list for any abbey or priory. As of 2016 [update] , the Catholic Church has 3,600 abbeys and monasteries worldwide. [ 1 ]
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;
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 .
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]
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 ...