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Monasteries in Neamt county

Agapia monastery: Agapia Monastery , having as patrons the saints Mihail and Gavril (November, 8th), is located on the valley of Agapia Brook (Topolita), at the foot of Magura Hill, in an extremely picturesque environment, surrounded by mountainous heights with secular forests and vividly coloured by great many flower gardens and orchards. Its founders donated to this new establishment a beautiful eight arms cross , carved in miniature with the big twelve mercy meals over the year and adorned with golden silver garments. The Holy Book covered in gold and the foundation cross together with other old and valuable objects originary from The Agapia Monastery, are preserved nowadays at The Art Museum, The Medieval Art Section, from Bucharest .

Varatec monastery: The first building was wooden made, but between 1808-1812, the old church was replaced by a new stone and brick church wih walls built from the same material that give the impression of a real fortress. The architecture combines traditional elements of The Moldavian style with some architectural elements that came in Moldova at the end of the XVIIIth century and the beginning of the XIXth century, the church having a boat shape, with two cylindrical spires and a bell shaped roof that distinguishes itself among other similar buildings. A great difference also makes the two circular porches, lying at sides. The interior picture, finished in 1841 and restored in 1882, in neobyzantine style, and the iconostasis carved in yew tree and gold gilded, represents another great attraction. The Varatec Monastery owns a rich variety of valuable historic and artistic objects , several gifts received from rulers and boyars/ noblemen

Secu monastery: In the second half of the XVIth century, several hermits lived in meadows hidden by secular forests. Some of them joined Monk Vasian and built a wooden church and a few cells in Poiana Secului. By the year 1560, the hermitage was renewed and extended by a monk named Zosim. In 1602, Nestor Ureche, the father of Grigore Ureche built a new hermitage near the old one. The church with the saint’s day ‘The beheading of Saint John The Baptist” (August, 29), has its interior architecture designed in moldavian style, that differs from the exterior that resembles with the Muntenian style, except for the spire on the nave. The façade/ face lacks close buttress/ abutment and a famous mountainous belt divides it in two meadows, made up of two rows of bricks obliquely set in shape of teeths. The interior painting in Rennaissance style dates back to 1850.

Sihastria monastery: The wise monk Sihastru Atanasie (Atanasie The Hermit=pustnic) together with seven of his apprentices built the first praying place in the spring of the year 1655.The scheme is trichonch/ three-apse, the dimensions are reduced, having only one spire on the nave. Both the interior and exterior of the church lack rich embellishments. The spire , designed in cylindrical shape props up (a se propti) on an octagonal basis.This late building architecthonically represents a closure of the moldavian style that reached out its utmost period between the centuries XV-XVI. The iconastasis is carved in lime/linden wood and is gilded with gold , being as old as the church.

Neamt monastery: In the second half of the XIV century , there was a hermit like settlement , founded by a group of orthodox monks , with the help of a feudal ruler , whose castle/ residence was near the fortress , that was known as Neamt Monastery. The voivode Petru Musat The First (1374-1391) gave to this new monk settlement two villages and other goods, fact dated on January 7, 1407, in the book of the metropolitan bishop , Joseph of Moldovalachia, relative of Petru Musat and his son, Alexander Voivode who mentions : The monastery of my reign lies at Neamt Monastery …”This book is the very first documentary certification/ attestation of The Neamt Monastery. Researchers believe that Petru Musatwas the first to transform the hermitage into a monastery, building the first rock church , situated in the very core of the settlement. During the strong earthquake in August 29, 1471 , the monastery underwent severe damages. When this natural disaster ended, the ruler Stephan The Great decided to build a brand new church, having as patron saint The Ascension (40 days from Easter) which he sanctified/ blessed in great procession in the year 1497, after the victory obtained in Codrii Cosminului against The Polish king John Albert. The event appears in the rotive of the church porch “ He came back from war and blessed this church on the same year, on the month of November ...