Începuturile Mănăstirii Radu Vodă din București: Istorie și surse
The Beginning of the Radu Vodă Monastery from Bucharest: History and Sources

Summary/Abstract: In the city-center of Bucharest, in an atmosphere filled with the sound of the hurried footsteps of passersby, it rises imposing and haughty, though tested several times over the centuries, The Monastery ofRadu Voda, once an important place of worship in the capital city of Alexander II Mircea. The memories regarding the dominant presence of Christian spirituality over the surroundings, that this monastery still imposes through the word and songs that raise from the sanctuary are getting lost thus in the days long gone when it was called the Holy Trinity and it fulfilled its function of residence of the the highest hierarchy of the Wallachia. Although burned by Sinan Pasha's Turks, history springs allow the identification of the first phase of construction of the Holy Trinity Monastery, as a distinct place in the content of the same monastic settlement which today is called Radu Voda.

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