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Socola Monastery

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17: 367:(both made by the same anonymous painter in 1827). A set of murals, produced early in the 20th century, were painted over in time, after it was judged that they lacked artistic or historical importance. The church furniture is in carved oak, and forms part of a larger collection (part of which was donated by Socola to the 351:
accommodating a bell tower (built in brick), while the existing stone tower was redesigned to resemble the new one, and the windows covered and replaced with ten new and larger ones. Alongside the new tower design (which echoed the
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Lăpușneanu ordered work to begin on the monastery building in 1551, to replace an older church, the work being completed in 1562. The dedication was made by the monarch, his wife Ruxandra and his daughter Soltana as
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The Socola Monastery houses a cemetery which golds the remains of church officials, former seminary teachers, and heroes of the
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models. He therefore proposed the building of a psychiatric hospital in close proximity to the monastery, a project approved by
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Unlike other Romanian Orthodox churches, Socola lacks murals, and is decorated instead with framed paintings and the usual
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or other liturgical languages), and one of the first formal schools in the country. The decision behind this belonged to
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In its earliest state, the Socola Monastery church, built entirely in stone, was only as long as its present-day
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for the surrounding community. The name, which carries no meaning in Romanian, was probably borrowed from a
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Socola became the focus of a major education reform in 1814, under the administration of Prince
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Moldavian education" and tone down "the influence of Greek and the Greek professors at the
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The Making of Modern Romanian Culture: Literacy and the Development of National Identity
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The seminary ceased to exist later in the same century, and, in 1905, was replaced by a
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church for the neighborhood. this situation changed again after the
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and the first-ever institution to provide secondary training in the
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church. It has afterward been functioning as a church serving the
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in Iași." In the same period, Moldavia, like the southern
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during the early 19th century, when it functioned as a
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Christian monasteries established in the 16th century
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The seminary was set up in 1803, during the reign of
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Religious buildings and structures completed in 1562
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Socola ceased to function as a monastery during the
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Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Index


Transfiguration
Romanian Orthodox
eponymous quarter
Iaşi
Romania
Moldavia
Moldavian Prince
Alexandru Lăpuşneanu
nunnery
Romanian education
seminary
Romanian language
psychiatric hospital
communist period
parish
Socola Psychiatric University Hospital
ktitors
laywomen
Slavic
falconry
Phanariote
Alexander Mourousis
vernacular
Greek
Slavonic
Moldavian Metropolitan
Veniamin Costachi
American
Keith Hitchins

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