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 Trip around Iasi
Date: July 12, 2008
Touristic objectives: Hadambu, Dobrovat, Cetatuia Monasteries |
» Hadambu Monastery
Celebration: Virgin Mary Birthday - September 8
Address: Hadambu, Mogosesti commune, Iasi, Romania
Situated in Mogosesti, at 30 km south-west from Iasi, it was founded by Iani Hadimbul in 1659 on a place donated to him by sovereign Gheorghe Ghica. After a long period of being closed, the monastery was reopened in 1990.
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» Dobrovat Monastery
Celebration:Fall of the Holy Ghost
Address:Dobrovat, Iasi, Romania
It was built between 1503-1504. Its painting was done in 1529, during the reign of Petru Rares, both in interior and in exterior. The nave's painting is considered the most beautiful in Moldavia. Only two little fragments are still preserved from the exterior painting. In 1651, during Vasile Lupu's reign, the monastery was donated to Mount Athos until 1863, at Cuza's secularization. Till 1902 the monastery functioned as a prison, then it was completely abandoned. After being transformed in a girl orphanage and an agricultural school, between 1930-1948 it returned to the monastic life, but it was closed in 1948 and it remained so until 1990 when it was reopened.
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» Cetatuia Monastery
Celebration:The Holy Apostles Peter and Paul - June 29
Address: 1 Cetatuia Street, Iasi, Romania
The founder of the Cetatuia Monastery was Prince Gheorghe Duca. The construction works started in 1669 and were completed in 1672. The inscription in Greek above the entrance into the pronaos reads: "This house of God has been raised, with the protectorship of the revered saints, all over praised and forerunning Apostles Peter and Paul, by the lover of God and eminent Prince Duca of the entire Moldavia, for the salvation of his soul, the Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem being Dositei, the administration of the Metropolitanate of Moldavia being held by His Eminence, Metropolitan Dosoftei, in the year 7180 since the Creation of the world and 1672 since the Incarnation of the Lord".
Amazed by the greatness of this construction, on June 10, 1672, in his campaign against Poland, sultan Mehmed IV predicted the imminent fall of the monastery. His words never came true, however, although the monastery underwent many hardships over the years.
On the southern side of the precincts is the building that contains the "Princess Anastasia" Gothic Hall and the cellars that shelter the wine obtained in the vineyard of the monastery.
The church was surrounded since the beginning by tall stone walls, with ramparts and a sentinel's path, entrance and corner towers. Within the monastery there have been built rooms for the monks, a bathroom, a kitchen, cellars and a starets' house with a dining hall.
The uniqueness of Cetatuia consists in the fact that the entire ensemble of monastic architecture has been preserved.
A special place is the palace destined to the lodging of the prince, a fortified building characteristic to the XVIIth century and the kitchen or, according to other opinions, the Turkish bath which is the only construction of this kind that has been preserved within a monastic ensemble.
The bell tower and the massiveness of the walls prove that the monastery was also conceived as a military guarded refuge, being a real "cetatuie" ("citadel") in case of need.
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