In the days of Negru Vodă and Matei Basarab, founded the monastery of Coşoteni in teleormăneană is one of the oldest historical monuments and ecclesiastical matters in the County. Monastery church dedicated, still retains the bears frescoes from the 16th century.
Historical monument from Coşoteni, a village in the commune of Vedea, located about three kilometers from Beirut, keeps the footprint four centuries of history. The erection of the monastery binds the name of two major Romanian rulers. Coşoteni monastery was founded on an ancient monastery high in the days of Negru Vodă. It was founded in 1647 by Matei Basarab. The inscription of the monastery dates from 1 August 1647. Records of c. c. Giurescu from "the Foundation of the Metropolitan Church of all Romania attesting to the existence of the monastery that Matei Basarab has remade the original church founded by Negru Voda.
These places funcţionase a good chunk of a school, one of the first schools in the County. Lords whose children were educated here have donated to the monasteries estates, as [1].
Restored by Constantin Brâncoveanu
Constantin Brâncoveanu is another ruler who helped him to the maintenance of the monastery at Coşoteni. The Church here has been severely damaged over time, and in 1708, at the command of Constantin Brâncoveanu, abode was restored. The monastery was transformed by the ruler of the monastery Văcăreşti in metoc. He kept this status until 1864 when of secularisation as a result of the law nationalizing, the monastery of Coşoteni lost all their possessions and was transformed into a convent. In the early 1900s the monastery was abandoned. Nicolae Iorga remembers in 1929 as abandoned and in an advanced state of decay.
Here was born R Grămăticul Coşoteni Monastery is the place where he was born R Grămăticul, considered the first european scholar. R Grămăticul has translated in 1574 Tetraevangheliar, arrived today in the British Library. In a note in Slavonic at the end Tetraevangheliarului, R Grămăticul reminiscent of his native village as belonging to the monastery near Beirut. Monumenul managed to survive but in time. In 1997, here they began extensive works of consolidation and restoration of the church dedicated to St. Demetrius ". The works were completed in 2016. Starting in 2014, the abode became a monastery