Frumoasa Monastery - Iasi - details and images
As it appears to us today, convent and other buildings of the complex beauty of this architecture are the result of work that began four centuries ago and suffered, in the next epoch, the radical transformations. These places have made history during the second reign of Peter Schiopul and founder of the first church of Nice (1583) was Melinte Balica, noble princes who held high in Moldova sofa.
The Frumoasa monastery name should be placed in the "picturesque fairy tale" of the place where the high church and royal courts. "Pond surrounding the entire splendor of natural scenery, beautiful monastery makes a small island fortress."
"Palace of the walls" of the monastery combines classic style with the traditional Moldavian and was built between 1818 -1819 by Martin Kubelka architectural plans. Plan palace is rectangular, with two outputs: a girl from the South, inside the enclosure and one on the opposite front, sandwiching the enclosure wall, hence the name "Palace of the wall."
Entering the church is through a Doric portico with a triangular pediment, equipped with four columns, the middle is connected by an archway.
Columns, pilasters and arches, used with skill and ingenuity decorate the facades, the imposing monument enhancing elegance.
All the Frumoasa monastery in the northern part of the church, is a magnificent white marble monument. The tomb of Prince Michael Sturza high "in remembrance preaslavitului Gregory Sturza chancellor and knight, born in 1758 and committed in 1833" The tomb is made from a biblical statuary group, dominated by an angel who helps a small obelist gracefully.
The restoration of 1739 were assigned to and completed by John Enache Kogalniceanu Mavrocordat who built a tower "very FRUMOSU from that part of Beauty pond under fortress" and "boots in the same hill."
In 1863 the church possessions are passed in the state patrimony and royal houses here are turned into barracks and later in a military hospital.
Church is a beautiful building that blends in favor of aesthetics, simplicity and sobriety classicism with local traditionalism, monuments, walls and wearing beautiful spots distant echo of some plausible stories that have persisted for four centuries.
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