2019-08-14 17H40 IASI: Biserica Barnovschi
The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Barnovschi is a Christian-Orthodox church in Iasi, whose construction began in 1627 at the request of the ruler of Moldova, Miron Barnovschi-Movila (1626-1629, April-July 1633).
In July 1629, Prince Miron Barnovschi-Movila had to leave the country, fleeing to Poland, so that construction work on the monastery of Iasi was slowed down or even stopped. He was summoned to Istanbul on April 27, 1633 on the pretext that he would receive the reign of Moldova, but was arrested there in June 1633, sent to prison and beheaded on July 2, 1633.
In his will of June 22, 1633, drawn up in Constantinople, the former sovereign of Moldova ordered his executors (the factor Iancu Costin, father of the chronicler Miron Costin, and the great logician Matei Gavrilaș) to sell his properties in Poland for , with the money obtained, complete the construction of the Church of the Assumption of Iași, of the church "Sf. Ioan Botezătorul” of Iași and of the churches of Toporăuți and Liov.
The Barnovschi Monastery, administered by Greek monks until the secularization of the monastery property (1863) during the reign of Alexander Ioan Cuza, became the official residence of the patriarchs of the Orthodox East who crossed Moldova. By the law of secularization of goods of December 1863, the monastery of Barnovschi was abolished, it lost its properties and the Greek monks left it. It became a parish church, having as branch the church of Saint-Lazare.
Over time, the buildings of its premises deteriorated, the annex buildings being demolished by the systemization plan of the Civic Center Iași of 1983. The church, the bell tower and a cellar which were attached to it escaped the bulldozers of the Communist regime.
Between 1994 and 2004, the Barnovschi church was strengthened and restored inside and outside, with funds allocated by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, but also with the help of UNESCO.
2019-08-14 17H40 IASI: Biserica Barnovschi
The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Barnovschi is a Christian-Orthodox church in Iasi, whose construction began in 1627 at the request of the ruler of Moldova, Miron Barnovschi-Movila (1626-1629, April-July 1633).
In July 1629, Prince Miron Barnovschi-Movila had to leave the country, fleeing to Poland, so that construction work on the monastery of Iasi was slowed down or even stopped. He was summoned to Istanbul on April 27, 1633 on the pretext that he would receive the reign of Moldova, but was arrested there in June 1633, sent to prison and beheaded on July 2, 1633.
In his will of June 22, 1633, drawn up in Constantinople, the former sovereign of Moldova ordered his executors (the factor Iancu Costin, father of the chronicler Miron Costin, and the great logician Matei Gavrilaș) to sell his properties in Poland for , with the money obtained, complete the construction of the Church of the Assumption of Iași, of the church "Sf. Ioan Botezătorul” of Iași and of the churches of Toporăuți and Liov.
The Barnovschi Monastery, administered by Greek monks until the secularization of the monastery property (1863) during the reign of Alexander Ioan Cuza, became the official residence of the patriarchs of the Orthodox East who crossed Moldova. By the law of secularization of goods of December 1863, the monastery of Barnovschi was abolished, it lost its properties and the Greek monks left it. It became a parish church, having as branch the church of Saint-Lazare.
Over time, the buildings of its premises deteriorated, the annex buildings being demolished by the systemization plan of the Civic Center Iași of 1983. The church, the bell tower and a cellar which were attached to it escaped the bulldozers of the Communist regime.
Between 1994 and 2004, the Barnovschi church was strengthened and restored inside and outside, with funds allocated by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, but also with the help of UNESCO.