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Capriana Monastery - one of the oldest monasteries in Moldova, located 40 km from Chisinau, in the village of the same name.

The monastery was built from wood in 1429. A century later, in its place, under the patronage of a representative of the Moldovan nobility - Peter Rares, a large stone church of the Assumption was erected in the style of a medieval temple, which to this day is the main building of the Capriana monastery complex. However, after reconstruction in 1820, only the apses, lavishly decorated with decor, remained from the previous building. At the same time, the area of the church was expanded by adding walls, a pyramidal bell tower with nine bells and an impressive drum with a dome.

In 1840, the St. George Church was erected near the Assumption Church, executed in the late Baroque style, and in 1903 - Nikolaevsky, similar to medieval Moldavian temples.

The Capriana monastery housed one of the most solid and large libraries at that time in Moldova, where valuable manuscripts and gifts were carefully kept and offerings from noble persons.

In 1947, the Capriana monastery was closed, all the monks were dispersed, and the building was given for the needs of the children's tuberculosis dispensary. However, the date of the official closure of the monastery is 1962. At the beginning of the nineties of the last century, the Capriana monastery was returned to the believers again, restoration work began to restore the temples.

On the territory of the monastery is the burial place of the head of the Bessarabian diocese from 1813 to 1821 - Metropolitan Gabriel Banulescu-Bodoni, who made an invaluable contribution to the development of Orthodoxy and the culture of Moldova.

Not far from the monastery you can find the oak of Stephen the Great, at the base of which, according to legend, he rested after one of the battles.

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