The Romanian Orthodox Archiepiscopal Cathedral dedicated to
"Inaltarea Domnului" si "Sfanta Treime" – Targoviste. |
84 km north-west of Bucharest, 48 km west
of Ploiesti, 66 km south-east of Campulung
The cathedral was beginning in the first half of the 15th century, by
the Radu cel Mare, when it had one principal body and three steeples. In the time
of the Neagoe Basarab (1518), the church was transformed in the monumental church
and consecrated to May 17th 1520. The cathedral was finished and painted by the
Radu Paisie in 1537.
By the Metropolitan Teodosie, the church was restore and re-painted by
the painter Nicolae Radu (1707 – 1709).
was built by the schemes of the French architect Lecomte
de Nouy (1899 – 1933) in the Byzantine style.
In the Matei Basarab reign, here was the princely typography
("Pravila cea Mare", 1652); the typography was reestablished by the Antim
Ivireanu, between 1709 and 1715, in the Constantin Brancoveanu reign.
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