Caraiman Monastery Oct2005_JPG (2)
The Caraiman Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is one of the newest monastic hearth of the Archdiocese of Bucharest.
The begginings of the monastery were made in 1998, when the PF Teoctisc blessed the hieromonk Gherontie Puiu to raise here a wooden hermitage.
The wooden church was sanctified in 2001.
It was also built an "agheasmatar" (building next to a church, used for the sanctification of the holy water) and a series of modest cells.
The patronation of the church is the Assumption.
In 2008, the small hermitage becomes a monastery.
Today, a massive wall church is also finished and consecrated, dedicated to the Exaltation of the Cross.
In my pictures of 2005, you can clearly see the "stone" church and the bell tower under construction.
In the middle of the monastery, there is a fir-tree cut by a storm, in which it was found the face of the Virgin Mary, tree in the shape of a giant chandelier.
On its top, there is a white cross that light at the nightfall, at the sametime with the public illumination of the town of Busteni.
Inside the wooden chapel, built around the great tree, the trunk is closed between four wooden walls, each side being adorned with icons and the Holy Cross.
Caraiman Monastery Oct2005_JPG (2)
The Caraiman Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is one of the newest monastic hearth of the Archdiocese of Bucharest.
The begginings of the monastery were made in 1998, when the PF Teoctisc blessed the hieromonk Gherontie Puiu to raise here a wooden hermitage.
The wooden church was sanctified in 2001.
It was also built an "agheasmatar" (building next to a church, used for the sanctification of the holy water) and a series of modest cells.
The patronation of the church is the Assumption.
In 2008, the small hermitage becomes a monastery.
Today, a massive wall church is also finished and consecrated, dedicated to the Exaltation of the Cross.
In my pictures of 2005, you can clearly see the "stone" church and the bell tower under construction.
In the middle of the monastery, there is a fir-tree cut by a storm, in which it was found the face of the Virgin Mary, tree in the shape of a giant chandelier.
On its top, there is a white cross that light at the nightfall, at the sametime with the public illumination of the town of Busteni.
Inside the wooden chapel, built around the great tree, the trunk is closed between four wooden walls, each side being adorned with icons and the Holy Cross.