The Cultural-Missionary Family Center is located in the town of Pantelimon, on the old site of the Pantelimon Monastery (erected in the 18th century under the ruler of Gregory II Ghica). The hospital monastery was, in the late 1700s, the second hospital in Bucharest after Coltea, dealing with plague and typhus, and was severely affected by the earthquakes of 1802 and 1977.
It was demolished under communism in the 80s, the bones of the princes Grigore and Alexandru Ghica, the carved doors, icons and monuments being saved and sent to other churches. Here, in 1987, a restaurant and exclusive hotel complex was built: Lebada. Set on a peninsula on Lake Pantelimon, Lebada Complex. Since the beginning of 2000, the building and the land have returned to the Romanian Patriarchate. Who built here this multipurpose center, inaugurated in 2014.
The Center is located within the "St. Panteleimon" House and is intended for cultural and educational activities and for missionary activities, support for families in difficult social, spiritual and medical situations, young people with special intellectual and spiritual endowment lacking any material possibilities or coming from disorganized families, as well as from orphans, the elderly and the disabled, without discrimination on grounds of professional training, age, gender, nationality, race, color, ethnicity, religion, political option or social origin.
More specifically, the place hosts Patriarchal invitations at various events. In addition, baptisms, weddings, anniversaries and memorials are organized here. But also conferences, colloquia, symposiums and seminars devoted to promoting the dialogue between faith and culture, spirituality and social action, theology and science, art and education, as well as helping the contemporary Christian family. In parallel, the center hosts year-end celebrations for students and continuous training courses for the clergy and some missionary churchmen.
Information and image taken from primariapantelimon.ro