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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 .
Monastery Marcha, Richfield, Ohio. Mother Anna. [20] Monastery of St. Paisius, Safford, Arizona. Mother Michaila. Now under two jurisdictions, bishops Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America (ROCOR) and Maksim of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America. St. Xenia Metochion Monastery, Indianapolis, Indiana. Nun Katherine, Superior. [21]
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]
Trei Ierarhi Church and Tower in 1845. The church was erected between 1637 and 1639, [2] in the Moldavian capital, in honour of the Three Holy Hierarchs of Eastern Orthodoxy (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom), and was blessed by Bishop Varlaam.
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 ...
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 ...
A little oasis of 12 acres (4.9 ha) in the heart of the city at Cleveland's highest point offers a view of Cleveland's west side and downtown during the fall and winter. The monastery consists of the abbey church and an east and west wing. The west wing is the cloister which was dedicated in 1952.
The patronal feast day of the monastery is 8 May (Julian calendar). [1] St. Mark Serbian Orthodox Monastery is listed as one of the important American Orthodox monasteries. [4] [5] In 1985, a youth Camp [6] opened at St. Mark Church Monastery at 1434 Lake Breeze Road in Sheffield, Ohio, which still continues with summer and winter activities ...