The cafas – an element of levantine architecture in the churches of Wallachia
The cafas – an element of levantine architecture in the churches of Wallachia

Summary/Abstract: In Wallachia two churches with cafas are known to exist, in Târgovişte and Strehaia. A third church, of the Radu Negru Vodă Monastery in Câmpulung Muscel, could also have had a cafas, as hypothesised by architects Grigore Ionescu, Cristian Moisescu and Cornel Ionescu. The importance of the cafas was remarkable from a religious point of view. Th e cafas assured, on the one hand, the separation of the women due to the dogma, and on the other hand, the protection of the lives of the people there, in what was a plot-filled era.

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