The Neamt Monastery 

   Neamt Monastery - Its patron is "Saint George". It houses monks.

  Location 

in the Vanatori commune, in Neamt county, 17-km north-west of Targu Neamt.

    Initially, it was built as a wooden hermitage and given with the villages and lands, in Petru Musat reign (1376 – 1392); he convert in a monastery with stone church, with cells and towers, as a fortress. It was re-founded and completed with houses and belfry by Alexandru cel Bun. The belfry is the unique piece of epoch that is in a good situation since beginning 15th century .

The Neamt Monastery

 

  The Big Church 

Church is dedicated to "Inaltarea Domnului" and it was re-built by Stefan cel Mare si Sfant prince, in 1497, in the same place with an old wooden church from 14th century.

   The architecture is in Moldavian style. The exterior walls are richness with ornamental motive and the steeple is with gothic elements. The fresco pictures, realized in 1497, are conserved in the principal apse, the altar, the nave and shines’ place; the pictures from pre-nave and threshold are since Petru Rares reigns.

  The Church 

is dedicated to "Sfantul Gheorghe" and was built to the end of 18th century (about 1796). It was re-built in the same place with Petru Rares’s stone church by Dometian abbot, in 1826, in neoclassic style

   The Old Church is dedicated to "Adormirea Maicii Domnului" and was founded by Veniamin Costachi Metropolitan, in 1809.

   The Chapel  

dedicated to "Sfantul Ioan cel Nou" were built in 1846 the old church was sanatorium, too, where Mihai Eminescu life some time.

   The Neamt Monastery was an important center of culture (calligraphy, miniatures and printings). The first typography of the Neamt Monastery was founded by Veniamin Costachi Metropolitan, in 1808.

   The monastery accommodates the relics discovered in 1986; in this place, two "Hodighitria" icons since 15th century and well-known wonder make "Lidianca" (a gift to Alexandru cel Bun from Ioan al VIII-lea Paleologu, in 1407). Here is one of the oldest Romanian libraries, a museum with valuable objects of medieval art, manuscript between 14th and 19th centuries and cult objects.

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