the Vargolici Church (the wooden church)

GPS: lat/long  47.9538804 , 26.393474500000025

Address:  Str. Grigore Ghica, nr. 43

Formerly known as the Vargolici Church, the wooden church is a historic architectural monument in Dorohoi, dating back to 1779, and is included in the Historic Monuments List. The churches are built on stone foundations, oak barns, trees coming from the forest where they were. At that time, the possibilities were modest, the Turkish occupation and the Phanariot rulers put great tribulations, and the resources, including those of the priests, were limited. It was founded, according to the last information discovered by Father Ifrim Catalin in 2008, by a priest named Vasile, and he was at the same time a builder, carving the walls that make up the church. The church was given the form of a ship, the roof has fast slopes, and on the exterior walls a carved odgon, a thick navy rope, carved it, symbolizing Christian hope. The churches have never been painted, either indoors or outdoors. Only the iconostasis benefits from an oil painting in Byzantine style, with Orthodox saints having the thin faces of fasting and spiritual experience, as described in the monograph studies of the economist priest Constantin Ciocoiu from 1900 and 1915. It was cleaned and varnished in 1895, and then some repairs were made in 1904 and 1919. In subsequent restoration works the interior walls were blackened in the past centuries, the bell tower and the porch were rebuilt and restored iconostasis. The church houses some church books dating back to the 18th and early 19th century: The Triod in 1747, The Gospel of 1812, The Gospel Talion, 1805 and The 9 Songs, 1815. At present, the church was restored, but Has remained a solid model of the architecture for the offspring.