Heritage
Almaș Monastery from Neamț County
Almaș Monastery
Located in the commune Gârcina, the monastery continues the tradition of the hermitage commissioned in 1659 by an Almaș family – shepherds who fled the Hungarian oppressive regime in Hațeg.
Destroyed by a Tatar invasion, the hermitage was rebuilt in 1715 by Lady Ecaterina, the wife of Iordache Cantacuzino, the sword bearer, but the Greek Eterists ravaged it again in 1821, Rebuilt in stone by Chancellor Lupu Balș and monk Rufail, it became a nun hermitage wherefrom nuns were removed in 1959. When it reopened – in 1987 – it became a monk’s hermitage. It has been a monastery since 1990.
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