Stavropoleos Monastery

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The exterior of the monastery.

Stavropoleos Monastery or the Stavropoleos Church (Romanian: Mănăstirea Stavropoleoscode: ro is deprecated or Biserica Stavropoleoscode: ro is deprecated ), is an Eastern Orthodox monastery for nuns in central Bucharest, Romania that was built in the year 1724. The monastery was named after the Romanian version of a Greek word, Stauropolis, which means "The city of the Cross".

Stavropoleos Monastery Media

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  Handmade paintings and chandeliers

• Photograph from 1865 by Carol Szathmari

• Title page of the Holy and Godly Gospel Book (1723, now in the monastery's library) printed during the reign of Nicolae Mavrocordat.

• Byzantine music notation style in an 1823 "Book of Hymns at the Lord's Resurrection" from the monastery's library.

• Icon of Archangel Michael (1756) in the collection of the monastery. He is one of the patron saints of the church.

• Painting by Henric Trenk