“Icoana Noua” Hermitage it’s under the administration of Neamt Monastery, which isthe oldest monasteryfrom Neamt County and it’s located in the place called “Valea Icoanei” (The Icon’s Valley). The origins of this hermitage are from 1941 at the initiative of father Vasian Iosub (the abbot of the hermitage from 1946).
The first sanctification service was performed on May 6 1951 for a chapel that also has in it few cells. The chapel’s patrons are “Schimbarea la Fata” (The Transfiguration) and “Nasterea Maicii Domnului” (The Birth of St. Mary).
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The iconostasis of the chapel is a wooden sculpture and painted by painter Procenco. The interior of the chapel was painted in 1990 by Dumitru Gabor. The abbot of the hermitage tried over time to build a church but the communist regime stopped him. With all this opposition, in 1972 he managed to build a bell-tower. At the first floor of this building was created a small chapel with the patron of St Dimitrie. The interior of this chapel was painted in 1984 by Bartolomeu Florea.
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