The Curtea de Arges Monastery

  

   Curtea de Arges Monastery - its dedication day is "The Assumption of the Virgin". It houses monks.

Location

Curtea de Arges town, Arges district, 36 km North-West from Pitesti.

   It was founded by Neagoe Basarab (1512-1517). It is considered to be a masterpiece, an outstanding historical monument. This monastery was an episcopal place between 1739 and 1748, becoming, after1990, an episcopal and monastic place.

 

The Curtea de Arges Monastery

 

The Chapel

The saint patron of the chapel is "The Saint & Martyr Filofteia" who has been protecting the monastery for 8 centuries and whose relics are inside the Episcopal Cathedral. In 1517, the canonization of Saint & Hierarch Nifon, The Patriarch of Constantinopole, the Metropolitan of Wallahia took place here.

   This is also the place where the relics of the Saint Nifon are preserved in a coffin made of silver and plated with gold. The Saint’s head and hands represent a present got by Neagoe Basarab from the monks who live in The Athos Mountains. There is also a coffin with the relics of the Saint Serghie, Vach and Saint Martyr Tatiana.

 

The Church

  

   This monastery represents the Romanian Emperors’ necropolis. The portraits of the King Carol and the Queen Elisabeth can be found on the nave (or pronaos) walls. There are also the portraits of the Romanian rulers and "The Gospel of the Resurrection on the Good Saturday", written with golden letters by the Queen Elisabeth.

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