"Antim" Monastery
Eighteenth-century monastery church with carved doors and a stone portal designed by its founder.
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This guide to Antim Monastery in Bucharest follows its founder, Antim the Iberian, a Georgian-born monk who came to Wallachia in the late seventeenth century as a printer, engraver and calligrapher. It touches his captivity as a young man, the books he set in four languages, and the monastery he began in seventeen thirteen on plans he drew himself. Stand facing the carved wooden doors at the church entrance.
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