Biserica Doamnei
Seventeenth-century princely church hidden in a courtyard, with carved octagonal stone columns.
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This guide to Biserica Doamnei, the Lady's Church in Bucharest, starts with the inscription over its door and the woman it names: Lady Maria, wife of Prince Serban Cantacuzino, in the sixteen-eighties. It follows the rites of founding and giving a church, a husband's murky death, and the old churchyard archaeologists found underfoot. Stand in the small courtyard facing the porch, where you can see both the stone above the door and the carved columns.
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