The Sf. Nicolae Church | The Sf. Nicolae Church (Bogdana) |
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The Sf. Nicolae Church, the oldest stone monument in Moldova, dates back from the middle of the 14"' century, when Bogdan I founded it. It shelters the graves of the first Musat princes that founded the Moldavian state. At Bogdana the three prevailing European styles of the time met: the romantic, the gothic and the Byzantine style. The three longitudinal naves suggest the romantic style, the interior separation into the nave, the pronaos and the altar belong to the Byzantine style, while the stone sculptare use the pointed arches that characterise the gothic style. Bogdana was the seat of the Radauti bishopric, close to which a significant cultural centre functioned. From the hands of the local artists came numberless manuscripts decorated with miniatures and bound in gold and silver, cult objects made of metal, wood sculptares, icons etc. A school and a printing house functioned here at the middle of the 18th century. Teodosie Barnovschi, Anastasie Crimca, Efrem, Varlaam and lacob Putneanul were among the local learned bishops. |
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