The wooden church is a listed monument of national value (LMI MM-II-m-A-04599.01), and the monastery holds 4.8 on Google from more than 1,700 reviews.
About the place
A beam of the wooden church records that the monk Iosif built it in 1599. Metropolitan Sava Brancovici consecrated it in 1672, when the monastery became a dependency of Putna Monastery. The church is small, 12.5 by 4.5 metres, built of spruce, with traces of old painting on the walls and a very low door. The neoclassical stone church dates from 1910–1911 and was painted in 1982.
At the patronal feast on 15 August tens of thousands of pilgrims come, and the service is held at the summer altar, built in the Maramureș style; one liturgy is also said in Ukrainian. A second, winter feast is on 2 February. Since 2024 a new masonry church in the Moldavian style, for about 1,000 people, has been going up. On Google the monastery holds 4.8 from about 1,750 reviews.
Good to know
- Daily services start at 6:30, and at 9 on Sundays and feast days; vespers are at 18, in winter at 17.
- Bend down as you enter the wooden church: the door is very low.
- On 15 August the place is very crowded; if you want quiet, come on another day.
Opening hours
Opening hours are not confirmed. Check the venue's website before you go.