Virgin Mother Church Ploiesti - details and images

The church has more than three centuries of existence and is located at intersection of Harmony Art, and Michael Daring. In some documents, the church is called "Virgin Mary", "Holy Mother" and "Assumption of Virgin."

Over the years, received several repairs and restorations, the current building, according to inscriptions above the door, was built in the time ruler Alexandru Ioan Sutu on 10 May 1820.

It has a single icon, the Virgin Mary is represented with three hands. "Madonna with Child" is made from a combination of gold and silver, and the third hand appears in the upper right of the icon.

The parish priest Stephen Savulescu, the icon was donated by Tsar Alexander II of Russia during the Russian-Romanian-Turkish war. They say they knelt before her, over time, important as Mihai Eminescu, Mihail Kogalniceanu, and even Thomas Caragiu late actor. "

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