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- located on 6, Postei street/ Stavropoleos street
- Superior Ioanichie founded the monachal establishment in 1724
- only the present church was preserved
- endowed with villages and estates, the monastery was one of the richest and most important from Wallachia in the 18th c.
- the church has a porch, pronaos, nave and the altar apsis
- the exterior is adorned with an openwork frieze of stone
- the church porch was added along the western wall of the pronaos, 1729-1730
- it has a rich sculptural ornamentation in stone
- five archways supported by four stone columns and two brickwork columns
- the balustrade that connects the columns is fretwork sculpture
- the pronaos is separated by the nave through 4 built columns
- the nave, initially square, became rectangular, with a tower spire on it
- the vaulting altar dates since 1730
- the church catapetasma consists of 4 fretwork registers
- the princely chair has pillars based on lions and panels decorated with stalks
- the princely chair has the back with colonates, vegetal motifs and a pediment with the reunited coats of arms of Wallachia and Moldavia
- the annexed construction hosts the religious art collection of Bucharest Arhiepiscopate
- head-stones, sculptural and architectural elements coming from many demolished churches, in the 19th c., are on display in the portico
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