Bârsana Monastery (the place where you find inner peace) located in Maramureș county, Romania Part II
Hello friends from everywhere
In my last post here in the community I was writing about the amazing church inside the Bârsana Monastery, so today it's time to share with you pictures, information and our experience here.
As I wrote in the title, Bârsana Monastery is located in Maramures, a fairy-tale area in Romania that I try to present to you through my posts.
The entrance to the monastery is in the middle of a building which also has a wooden roof.
But wait before we go any further I'll give you some information about the history of the monastery.
The first documentary records referring to Bârsana Monastery date from 1390. The monastery is mentioned in a document dated July 21, 1390, referring to the properties of the Dragoș family.
The old wooden church of the monastery was built in 1711 in the place called "Părul Călugărului" by the noble priest Ioan Ștefanca, together with his sons and other villagers, to thank God for protection during the great plague of the previous year. The church was then moved to the Izei Valley around 1739 on the site of a cemetery that had sprung up after the battle with the Tatars in 1717. On July 12, 1791, the monastery was disbanded, the monks were banished and took refuge in Moldova at the Neamț Monastery. At that time the monastery was devastated, the monastery's monastery and annexed buildings destroyed, the property confiscated: part of the property passed into state ownership and was handed over to the Greek-Catholic monastery of Cernoc, and another part, including the site where the monastery had been, became the property of the parish church of Bârsana.
The paintings were executed on wood, partially leveled with textile pieces, fixed to the walls and covered with a layer of prepared lime, as was the custom of the time. Later, the two-storey porch was added on the west side and the windows were enlarged. In 1929, the windows framing the door between the nave and the pronaos were cut out.
Now that I have shared some historical information with you let's take a little walk through the monastery courtyard, and wow, everything around me is maintained to the smallest details and it is so green, even if outside the last days when I visited the monastery it was very hot here inside everything is green.
In the background after I entered the courtyard of the monastery were heard church songs so I sat on a bench and I spent a few minutes there in silence listening to those songs, in my traveling life I visited many monasteries both in Romania and abroad but honestly here at the monastery Bârsana Monastery the feeling was different, it was something else, I can not explain sentimental but it was something special.
It's good to know that not all the houses here can be visited, being a nunnery, they live here, they lead their daily life here, so we can't violate their privacy.
Our second stop will be at the monastery museum, access to the monastery is free but here if you want to visit the museum you have to pay a fee of 5lei/1euro/person, as is practiced in many places of this kind if you want you can make a donation to the monastery.
The monastery museum is amazing, a building in which a lot of wood was used, it couldn't have been built of anything but wood, this is the special style of this area, more everything we saw inside is specific to the Maramureș area.
Specific clothing for women.
Specific clothing for men.
In order to visit all the places of this monastery you will need such a map.
My dears after a few hours spent here our visit has come to an end.
THE END!
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P.S. The attached picture you have just seen are taken by me with my mobile phone(Samsung Galaxy S21), and the text is also designed by me.
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