IASI County

The Metropolitan Cathedral in Iasi, where the Rituals of Saint Parascheva are preserved, was built on the site of two older churches, the White Church Stratenia Church. The Metropolitan Cathedral was built in the time of Prince Ioan Sturdza, by the oath of Metropolitan Veniamin Costache, between 1833 and 1842, following the plans of the Austrian architects Johann and Gustav Freiwald.

After a 40-year interruption, due to the fall of the central vault, the construction, through the care of Metropolitan Iosif Naniescu, between 1880 and 1886 was resumed, Alexandru Orascu being the architect. The cathedral is painted by Gheorghe Tattarescu. St. Parascheva's relics were moved here from the Three Holy Hierarchs Monastery in 1889.

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Barnova Monastery is founded by Miron Barnovschi - Movila, ruler of Moldavia (1626-1629,1633), on the site of a wooden church, erected in 1603 by Ieremia Movila, dedicated to St. George.

The monastery is finished by the ruler Eustratie Dabija in 1662. In 1728, Prince Grigore II Ghica rebuilds the buildings in the enclosure and the high enclosure wall, provided with crenellations and watchtower. The monastery functioned for a while as the parish church, and between 1945 and 1950 it was a monastery of nuns. In July 1991 Monastery of Monks was rebuilt.

Hram: Holy Great Martyr George, Cutting the Head of St. John the Baptist

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Bucium Monastery was built in 1863 by the Athonite hieromonk Nifon and Nectarius, living in the Romanian Prothromu Hermitage, Mount Athos. Called for a time The Prodromu Hermitage in Iasi, having as a holy Saint the Saints, finally, the church was celebrated on Sunday of the Holy Romans. In 1954, the church will be enlarged, and in 1964 it will be painted. It was not until 1991 that the church would become a monastery.

Hram: Sunday of the Holy Romans

The Three Holy Hierarchs Monastery in Iasi is one of the most important places of worship in our country. The church of the monastery, an important monument of ecclesial architecture, was present in some of the most important moments of national history.

In 1634, on the throne of Moldavia became the great witch Vasile Lupu, wise and enlightened boyar, lovingly beautiful and especially beloved of faith. Between 1634-1653, as long as it lasted, Moldova experienced an unprecedented cultural blossom. Immediately after the reign, the faithful Vasile Lupa built a church dedicated to the Holy Three Hierarchs.

The original writing of the church, written in the Slavonic language and still seated above the entrance door, testifies to the following: - By the will of the Father and with the help of the Son and the realization of Saint Suh, I am the servant of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ Trinity, Io, Vasile Voievod, with the mercy of God the Lord of the Land of Moldova, and with our lady, Tudosca, and with the children of God, John Voievod and Maria and Rucsandra, I built this holy prayer on behalf of the Three Holy Hierarchs Vasile the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Gura de Aur. And it was consecrated by the hand of Archbishop Varlaam, 7147, May 6 .--

In the Three Hierarchs cells there were events of great importance for the Romanian education and culture. In 1640, the first Moldovan printing house was installed here, where the Romanian Barracks of Metropolitan Varlaam, his mass treatise on the Seventh Sacraments of the Church, the Answer to the Calvine Catechism and the Pravila of Vasile Lupu, the first anthology of Moldovan laws .

Cetatuia Monastery was built between 1669-1672 by the prince Gheorghe Duca. The place is one of the most important monuments of feudal art: the fortress has the shape of a fortress, and the church is surrounded by tall stone walls, ramparts and watchtower, entrance tower and corner towers.

The architecture of the church follows the Church's Three Hierarchs. The painting is made by Mihai, Gheorghe and Dima in lanina, along with Nicolae Zugravul cel Batran and Stefan Zugravul.

Hram: The Holy Apostles Peter and Paul

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The Palace, which today houses the Al. I. Cuza was built in the first decade of the nineteenth century by the reverend Sandulache Sturdza, who commissioned Viennese architect Johan Freiwald to build a luxurious residence on the site of his old ancients' house. The original style was the neo-classic, preserved by the chapel of the residence, a style that had prevailed in the civil architecture of Moldova at that time. In 1847, Logos Costache Sturdza - prefigured the house from Ruginoasa after the Gothic style architecture - and the Architect Johan Brandel. The works were completed in 1855. The building, which preserves the characteristics of the neo-gothic style, inspired by the German romanticism, is a square, one-storey, each of the four facades having the same elements: large platforms, balconies supported on stone slabs. The striking resemblance to the palace at Miclauseni, Iasi, is not accidental, being built by another branch of the Sturdza family.

Still Sturdzestii were the ones who built the church near the castle and the wall wall with gothic bastions. According to Western fashion, a German gardener, Mehler, was brought to Ruginoasa to arrange a beautiful park with wide paths and exotic vegetation. In April 1857, the abandoned and threatened palace, as well as the Ruginoasei estate, with 8,000 hectares, were mortgaged by Alexandru Sturdza at the National Bank of Moldova for the sum of 60,000 golden coins. The rates could not be paid in time so that the property was auctioned and bought in 1862 by Al. I. Cuza, the prince of the United Principalities. The Easter days of 1864 were spent by the reigning family, surrounded by friends, at Ruginoasa

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