Monasteries of SUCEAVA

The Metropolitanate of Moldavia and Bucovina
The Archdiocese of Suceava and Radauti
 
Arbore  Balinesti  Bogdana  Dragomirna  Humor  Moldovita  Patrauti  Probota  Putna  Rasca  Slatina  Sucevita  Voronet 

ARBORE  Monastery - Solca village, Suceava County.
Luca Arbore, one general of Stephen the Great, built Arbore Monastery between the 2nd of April and the 29th of August 1503. It has remarkable fresco exterior and interior paintings made by Dragos Coman from Iasi. Now it is only a church.
Dedication day: “Beheading of Saint John the Baptist”, 29 August.

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BALINESTI  Monastery - Balinesti commune, Suceava County.
The Tautu adviser made build in 1493 on his property located at edge of Siret, an imposing church with obvious influence of the Renaissance. This one is one of the monuments today most representative of the time of Stephen the Great. Now it is only a church.

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BOGDANA  Monastery - Radauti town, Suceava County.
Voievode Bogdan I founded Bogdana Monastery, convent for monks, after 1359 on the place of a wooden church. A mural painting is kept in the altar, dating from the XV century. Necropolis of the Musatins and former Episcopal residence, it was suppressed by the Austrians and reactivated in 1992.
Dedication days: “Saint Nicholas”, 6 December and “Saint Leontie from Radauti”, 1 July.

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DRAGOMIRNA  Monastery - Dragomirna commune, Suceava County.
Dragomirna Monastery, convent for nuns, was founded by Metropolitan Bishop Anastasie Crimca and the Great Chancellor Luca Stroici, at the beginning of the 17th century. It is the first monastery where the exterior painting is replaced with sculpture in rock (floral and geometric patterns). The interior mural paintings are preserved until today.
Dedication day: "The Descent of the Holy Spirit", the eighth Sunday after Easter.

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HUMOR  Monastery - Humor village, Suceava County.
Humor Monastery, convent for nuns, has been build by Chancellor Teodor Bubuiog in 1530. It was painted by Toma of Suceava at 1535. The steeple was raised by Vasile Lupu in 1641. The monastery have been declared UNESCO monument and reactivated in 1990.
Dedication day: “Saint George”, 23 April.

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MOLDOVITA  Monastery - Vatra Moldovitei commune, Suceava County.
Petru Rares founded Moldovita Monastery in 1532. Monastic life at Moldovita was interrupted in 1785 and the monastery’s life restarted in 1932, with the arrival  of a community of nuns. After the restoration, between 1954-1960, the Moldovita Monastery has been declared UNESCO monument.
Dedication day: “Feast of the Annunciation”, 25 March.

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PATRAUTI  Monastery - Patrauti commune, Suceava County.
This church leaves Stephan the Great in 1487, the smallest of all them construction monastic, and the single one intended to be a monastery of éclairs, and one hearth for the soldiers wounded with the combat. Now it is only a church.
Dedication day: “Elevation of Holly Croix”, 14 September.

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PROBOTA  Monastery - Dolhasca commune, Suceava County.
Petru Rares founded Probota Monastery, convent for nuns, in 1530 in place of an old wooden church from the 14th century. It is among the first Moldavian churches painted both inside and outside. Necropolis of rulers (here we find tombs of Petru Rares, Lady Elena and other family members). Religious activity was suspended in 1864 but reactivated in 1990.
Dedication day: “Saint Nicholas”, 6 December.

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PUTNA  Monastery - Putna commune, Suceava County.
Putna is a monastery for monks, founded by Stephan the Great in 1466-1469. The church was rebuild in 1662 by Vasile Lupu and restored several times (last time during 1966-1988). The tomb of Stephan the Great is in the monastery’s church. Ten kilometer from monastery, there is Daniil Sihastru Hermitage. The ceremonials here comply with the ones from the Holly Mountain (divine services are performed only at night – women are not allowed).
Dedication day: “Assumption of the Virgin”, 15 August.

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RASCA  Monastery - Rasca commune, Suceava County.
Petru Rares founded Rasca Monastery, convent for monks, in 1542. The external walls have been painted by Stamatello Cotronas (1552) and are enough preserved well on the southern frontage. The Monastery have been declared UNESCO monument.
Dedication day: “Saint Nicholas”, 6 December.

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SLATINA  Monastery - Slatina commune, Suceava county.
Slatina Monastery, convent for nuns, was founded by Alexander Lapusneanu (1558).
Dedication day: “The Transfiguration”, 6 August.

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SUCEVITA  Monastery - Sucevita commune, Suceava County.
Sucevita Monastery, convent for nuns, was founded by Metropolitan Bishop Gheorghe Movila and his brothers in 1586. It is the last church from Bucovina, painted on the front sides and having the greatest number of religious images in the country, a true “testament of the old Moldavian art” (Paul Henry). The museum of the monastery has one of the biggest and most precious collections of mediaeval art in Moldavia: the tomb covers of Voivodes Ieremia and Simion Movila, the epitaph with 10000 pearls, the silver casket with Lady Elisabeta’s hair.
Dedication day: “The Lord’s Ascension”, Easter.

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VORONET  Monastery - Voronet village, Suceava County.
Voronet monastery is convent for nuns, founded by Stephan the Great in 1488. The paintings from inside where performed during Stephen’s the Great reign, and the paintings from outside where performed during Petru Rares’s reign (1534-1535). These painting are characterized by special color that is known as “Voronet Blue”. The monastery is regarded as “the Sixtine Chapel of Orient”.
Dedication day: St. George, 23 April.

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