O MĂNĂSTIRE HUNEDOREANĂ UITATĂ: PLOSCA
A FORGOTTEN MONASTERY FROM HUNEDOARA COUNTY: PLOSCA

Summary/Abstract: In the south-west of Transylvania, on one of the deep valleys of Poiana Ruscăi Mountains, was founded, either at the initiative of Saint Nicodim of Tismana, the reorganizer of the Romanian monasticism, or – later – with the material support of the Romanian voivode Iancu of Hunedoara, an ancient monastery the Orthodox Church, whose religious destiny resembled, in detail, that of another monastic settlement in the area: Prislop. Important center of Orthodox resistance against attempts to attract the union with the Church of Rome in the mid-eighteenth century, it was burned by the Austrians in the summer of 1762; then abandoned by monks in the following decades, the memory was perpetuated not only by its cultural significance of the past, but also by the name of the present village of Ghelari, the Mănăstire (Monastery), founded in the vicinity, on the properties of the former monastic settlement.

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