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The Monastery of Putna
 

Etienne the large one began share to make build and give in state the castles - forts (Suceava, Neamt, chilla, Orhei), princely residences of (Iasi, Vaslui, Piatra Neamt), other fortifications.
Lastly, Master of the financial resources, he thought of founding church and convents.
It was only at the end of nine years of reign that it undertook the construction of several monasteries; it was initially Putna, as a sign of gratitude for the reconquest, in 1465 of Chilla, which the Turks occupied.
The construction of Putna extended on three years, of 1466 to 1469, having for owner the Virgin Mary. The legend wants that Etienne the large one an arrow in top would have drawn from a mountain which while falling down, him would have indicated the place of the furnace bridge to come, and they were the arrows from two boyards which would have fixed those of the entry and the bell-tower.
Putna inaugurated a remarkable Moldavian style or element Byzantine of structure of the church to the mural, marry with the Gothic; this one is found in the height and the buttresses of the building, like in the sculptures of the porch and the roof with boxes.
The plan with three cones includes/understands chorus, a nave, a panaos, a crypt and a covered porch; in Putna fact is a model of the Moldavian churches.
With the origin, walls, so much external that interiors, were painted but the fires, the cold, the rains and the seisms made some disappear any trace.
Ten nine years after its dedication, the church was entirely destroyed by fire and prince saw himself obliged to make it rebuild.
It is there in the crypt that Etienne the large one sleeps of its last sleep.
It had to prepare its sarcophagus, with which one of with dimensions is decorated floral reasons;quant with the tomb stone, carved under eyes of the prince, it carries an inscription surrounded of erudite garland of sheet of oak and half-palmettes interlaced with nipples.
A night light burns without stop with the top tomb on which many Rumanians came to incline themselves and request for the rest of the heart of the prince and to draw forces.
Museum of the convent of Putna shelters wonders of religious art: embroideries, tapestries, silverware, manuscripts, woodcarvings, icons.
* Sponsor church: "Dormition of the Virgin Mary" (August 15) * Consecrate on September 8, the 1470 * church is located in the commune of Putna. To 60 km north-western of Suceava.

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