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  Hirjauca Monastery is situated in district Calarasi nearby the river with the same name. The researcher P.Crusevan says that the monastery was founded in 1740, and it a monastery of monks. It was founded nearby a spring with healing water in the forest on the nobleman Niculita’s estate. They built firstly wooden church with five towers named “Adormirea Maicii Domnului”.   During the time the monastery knows a lot of problems, but when the ruler Spiridon Filipovici lived here the pl...

   In a very quiet and pitoresque place with an enigmatic atmosphere with  God’s blessing in 1678 started activity a new divine place-Hancu Monastery . The founder of this sacred monastery considers to be Mihalcea Hancu, a moldavian lord, who named the place in honor of his daughter Parascheva.   The monastery has a very interesting legend:  the lord Hancu needed a very big army to help him to discrown Gheorghe Duca who was the Moldova’s ruler in that time. Hancu was helped by Apostol ...

   In a pitoresque forested area ,  40 km from Chisinau-is the oldest monasteries  in Moldova,  Capriana. It was established in 1429 and was for a long time the residence for Moldova’s Metropolitan. Staring with 1429 Capriana becomes a royal monastery where the most famous builders were working  and kept with generosity the spirituality of Romanian orthodoxy.   This monastic overall includes 3 churches, two-floor house, cells and outhouses. The monastery  many times suffered f...