Darvari Hermitage
Walled Orthodox monastery garden with a domed church painted inside in the Mount Athos style.
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This guide to the Darvari Hermitage in Bucharest follows one family and the walled chapel a tavern-tax collector and his wife began in the eighteen-thirties. It moves through the nuns who first lived here, a prince's order, and the monks who came from Mount Athos, and asks why the church in front of you is so much younger than the hermitage around it. Best heard in the courtyard, facing the dome.
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