Antim Monastery

The Antim Monastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Antim) is a Romanian Orthodox church located in Bucharest, Romania on Mitropolit Antim Ivireanu Street, no. 29. It was built between 1713 and 1715 by Saint Antim Ivireanu, at that time a Metropolitan Bishop of Wallachia.^[1] The buildings were restored by Patriarch Justinian Marina in the 1960s. As of 2005, there were 7 monks living in the Monastery. The monastery also hosts a museum with religious objects and facts about the life of Antim Ivireanu.

The Monastery is connected to the Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom. On January 22, 1941, led by Hieromonk Nicodem Ioniță, the monks of Antim armed themselves and, using explosives, blew up a synagogue on Antim Street. The numerous Jewish inhabitants of the neighborhood hid in terror. Some of the monks involved were graduates of the Cernica Seminary, a Legionary stronghold.^[2]

During the communist rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the government threatened demolition of the church and many other historic structures in Romania. A project organized by engineer Eugeniu Iordăchescu moved the church to a different nearby site and saved it in time.^[3]

References

^ "Mănăstirea Antim (Paraclis Patriarhal)". arhiepiscopiabucurestilor.ro (in Romanian). Archdiocese of Bucharest. Retrieved November 30, 2021.
^ Biliuță, Ionuț (June 22, 2020). ""Christianizing" Transnistria: Romanian Orthodox Clergy as Beneficiaries, Perpetrators, and Rescuers during the Holocaust". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 34 (1): 18–44. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcaa003.
^ Smith, Harrison (January 7, 2019). "Obituaries: Eugeniu Iordăchescu, Romanian engineer who saved condemned churches under communist rule, dies at 89". The Washington Post.

External links

Official website
"Antim Monastery". www.romanian-monasteries.go.ro. Archived from the original on 2007-07-03.
"Church façade". www.spirit.ro. Archived from the original on 2007-09-26.
"Painting in Church's Dome". www.srpskoblago.org.