Biserica Buna Vestire - Schitul Maicilor din București
Eighteenth-century nuns' church rolled on rails in 1982 to escape communist-era demolition.
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This guide to the Nuns' Skete church in Bucharest begins with an eighteenth-century chapel founded in seventeen twenty-six by a woman who later took the veil, and the day in nineteen eighty-two when Ceausescu's bulldozers reached its doorstep. It follows Eugeniu Iordachescu, a civil engineer walking a district marked for demolition, and the unlikely everyday sight that gave him an idea. Stand facing the porch and its spiral-fluted columns while you listen.
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