The Monastery has been made in the 17th century. Initially, it was for monks; the first church of the monastery was made by wood. About 1800, the resident monastic of one Skete of nuns from Bucharest was transformed and moved to this monastery. The monastery derives its name from the owner of the land, Matei Tiganescu.
The church was built in 1812 when Radu Golescu was a high official at the princely court of the time. The architecture has preserved its original form, with the execution of the interior mural paintings, which were painted in the New Byzantine style by Father Eftimie in 1813, and which were reconditioned but not changed. Segments of the original paintings can still be seen in the porch of the church, but the frescoes are the work of Master Belizarie and were executed in 1929. The exterior walls of the church were decorated with mosaic medallions by the painter Gheorghe Raducanu.
The monastery shelters a collection of liturgical art objects and of old religious books.
Several workshops have also been accommodated within the monastery grounds, as for instance, the weaving workshop for manufacturing sacerdotal attire and the embroidery workshop for making priestly vestment ornaments.