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Orthodox monastery founded by Constantin Brâncoveanu below the Făgăraș Mountains: the church rebuilt in 1926–1946 on its old foundations, an icon museum and a new Brâncovenesc-style precinct.
A 16th-century monastery on a hill in central Bucharest, with the brick church of the Holy Trinity modelled on Curtea de Argeș, a bell tower and the relics of Saint Nectarios.
The largest convent in Romania, home to more than 400 nuns, founded in 1785 in a clearing at the foot of the mountains, where the poet Veronica Micle is also buried.
A small stone church built by Stephen the Great in 1496, twenty years after the Battle of Valea Albă, where the fallen Moldavian soldiers lie; today a convent.
A monastery of monks in the Neamț mountains, founded in 1655, home of the spiritual fathers Cleopa Ilie and Paisie Olaru, whose relics have been open for veneration since 2025.
A monks' monastery south of Iași, founded around 1727, with the ruins of the Vovidenia church bombed in the war and a new adobe church in use.
The oldest monastery in Wallachia, founded by St Nicodemus in the 14th century on a rocky spur next to a waterfall; Romania's National Bank gold was hidden here from 1944 to 1947.
A convent first recorded in 1530, founded by Vlad the Drowned, a few kilometres from Târgoviște: a church with a porch painted with scenes from the Apocalypse, Brâncoveanu votive portraits and cells with wooden verandas.
One of the largest convents in the country, built in 1641–1643 in the Agapia valley, with a church whose interior was painted by the young Nicolae Grigorescu in 1858–1861.
A convent in the Iza Valley, built from 1993 onwards of oak and river stone in the style of the Maramureș wooden churches: a precinct with a ~57 m church, bell tower, abbess's house and gardens.
A monastery for monks built on two islands in Lake Cernica, on the edge of Bucharest: the lavra of St Calinic, with two large churches, a museum and the graves of figures from Romanian culture.
A monastery of monks in the Nișcov valley, first documented in 1600, with a large church built in 1823–1828 and an older one from the 16th century; the Măgura Sculpture Camp lies beside it.
A monastery for monks at the foot of the Parâng Mountains, with the stone church of 1636 built by the boyar Dumitru Filișanu, with an octagonal tower, a brick band and a gilded iconostasis showing Matei Basarab.
Radu the Great's foundation on the hill north of Târgoviște, built in 1499–1501: a church clad in dressed stone and a princely necropolis where the head of Michael the Brave is kept.
The foundation of Metropolitan Anastasie Crimca (1602–1609), 12 km from Suceava: an unusually tall and narrow stone church enclosed by fortress walls, with a museum of old manuscripts and embroideries.
