MONASTERY OF VEVERIŢA

Veveriţa is a recent monastic complex located on the outskirts of the village of the same name. The monastery was founded between 1922 and 1924. At that time it was a large building and a church which was consecrated in 1927. During the Soviet period, in 1948, the monastery became the hermitage of the monastery of Capriana but it was closed in 1952. Some monks were sent to prison, others managed to escape. Only two monks, Tarasia and Antonia, refused to leave and lost their lives after 1960. The buildings of the monastery were destroyed by representatives of the agricultural authorities. The preserved church was used as a warehouse and then transformed into a stable. In 1985, the church was burned down.
It was in August 1994, on the hill where the ruins of the old church are located, that the foundations of a new monastery, annexes housing monastic cells and a winter church were created. These new buildings, with their heterogeneous architecture, give the ensemble an original composition. The right wing, where the winter church stands, follows a Russian architectural style while the left wing is in a Gothic style. The interior ceiling of the church is flat and the walls are decorated with different icons. Above the entrance, which separates the building into two parts, a Gothic-style bell tower also stands 35 m high. The interior shape of the church is rectangular with no demarcation between the fore-nave and the nave, above which three arrows rise