Văratec Convent

We owe the current church of the largest convent in Romania – built on the site of the former building commissioned by Sister Olimpiada, the Mother Superior, and by father confessor Iosif in 1785 – to the idea and efforts of Sister Nazaria, the Mother Superior between 1808 and 1812. The two bell-shaped domes add to the uniqueness of this neo-Byzantine religious site. Inside, between the nave and the narthex, there are two massive pillars, with Ionic capitals. The painting on the inside walls date to the nineteenth century.

The convent cherishes its cultural, artistic, and historical invaluable patrimony, e.g. a number of muniments, donation documents along with religious objects made in precious metal, old icons, embroidery, carpets, and priesthood dress. Some of these items – crafted by the nuns in the very shops of the convent – are on display in the Museum Collection organised in 1960, in the former “Queen Mary” workshop.

A few steps away, in the former convent graveyard, next to St John’s the Baptist Birth Church, visitors can find the grave of the poet Veronica Micle, the great love of the Romanian literary genius, Mihai Eminescu.

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