The Agapia Monastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Agapia) is a Romanian Orthodox nunnery located 9 km west of Târgu Neamț, in the commune of Agapia, Neamț County. It was built between 1641 and 1643 by Romanian hetman Gavriil Coci, brother of Vasile Lupu. The church, restored and modified several times during the centuries was painted by Nicolae Grigorescu between 1858 and 1861.[2][3] It is one of the largest nunneries in Romania, having 300–400 nuns and ranking second place in population after Văratec Monastery.
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The AgapiaMonastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Agapia) is a Romanian Orthodox nunnery located 9 km west of Târgu Neamț, in the commune of Agapia, Neamț County...
99.2% were Romanian Orthodox. The commune is the site of AgapiaMonastery and Văratec Monastery. Constanța Marino-Moscu "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa...
and servant of Moldavian Metropolitan Nicanor, with whom he lived at AgapiaMonastery. While there, Aaron seduced a nun, and was caught by Nicanor while...
was survived by his wife Ralu, who soon began a new life as a nun in AgapiaMonastery. The other living heirs were Pavelescu-Sturdza, as well as two other...
splitting the profit between his two children, he retired to the AgapiaMonastery in Agapia, living in a meager hermit room, where he continued writing until...
the seminary to start functioning, the nuns were moved to AgapiaMonastery, and the Agapia monks took their place. Socola became the focus of a major...
visiting local sights which inspired his work: the Romanian Orthodox monasteries of Agapia and Văratec, and the Neamț Fortress. After 1923, together with Topîrceanu...
married a Romanian woman. This was Lucreția Nemțeanu, a young novice at AgapiaMonastery, where her sister was a nun. Her father, the former mayor of Vânători-Neamț...
became a monastery. Two houses with cells were built for nuns brought from Socola Monastery. Soon, Prince Alexander Mourousis moved the nuns to Agapia Monastery...
mother Roxandra died in August 1942, while in monastic seclusion at AgapiaMonastery, and was buried next to her husband, at Eternitatea. (in Romanian)...
Eminescu's spirits. After his death in June 1889, she retired to Văratec Monastery, where she put together a volume called Dragoste și Poezie (Love and Poetry)...
Galicia, when it was within the Polish kingdom. His pious parents John and Agapia of the Zalizo (lit. "Iron") family, named him Ivan (John) after John the...
people human feelings!" Nearby locations include the monasteries of Moldavia (Neamț, Secu, Văratec, Agapia, Durău, Sihăstria), the Lázár Castle, Lacul Roșu...
there by her daughter, Safta Istrati, who is later known to have resided at Agapia. The Paharnic and his wife also left three sons, of whom the eldest, Iancu...
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