Crasna Monastery, Valea Teleajenului

Crasna Monastery - details and images

It is situated 50 km north of Ploiesti Ploiesti-Brasov road through the Mountain Valenii key sources in the commune, built in the woods near the creek Krasna, at the foot of Prahova Ursoaia.Inceputurile monastic life in the provinces - are Teleajen little known, especially for the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. However, isolated hermits have had in the Prahova Valley and the Carpathian Teleajenul since the fourteenth century, but only at the beginning of the fifteenth century were built in small religious communities. This secluded pustnicesca settlement was founded in the early eighteenth century, maybe a few hermits founded in Valen.

The old church of the hermitage is a cross. The nave is separated from the nave by four columns supporting the arch of the vault. The entrance door is carved wood in the narthex. Iconostasis worked in Vienna, has an admirable sculpture, covered with gold leaf, are admired by Irenaeus Protcenco two icons. Enclosed porch, lower than the rest of the building, leaving the impression that it was added later. It is not painted, but whitewashed. It has a single tower high above the nave. Outside walls are simply whitewashed. The roof shingle, stone floor tiles. The painting was done in 1832-1834 by an unknown.

In 1983 the church was renovated and repainted in 1991 by John Chiriac the care of His Beatitude Patriarch Teoctist. After the 1989 revolution, the striving PC abbot Galaction Left (now Bishop of Alexandria and Teleorman), helped in common and the faithful to build a monument to the heroes painted by John and Daniela Moldoveanu, building a deck for guests, and with her another massive brick and stone building with two floors, with the cells for monks. He built a new church of brick and concrete, covered with tin. It is a double construction, which has a chapel. Since 2001 the hermitage was transformed into a monastery.

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