Michael the Voivode Church
Sixteenth-century princely church rolled on rails to safety in the 1980s, now tucked behind apartment blocks.
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This guide to the Mihai Voda church in Bucharest follows a sixteenth-century prince's vow and the nineteen-eighties, when Nicolae Ceausescu was clearing the old city for his Civic Centre and this church stood in the way. It turns on an engineer, Eugeniu Iordachescu, and an idea he took from a waiter carrying a tray through a crowd. Best heard standing beside the church walls, with the apartment blocks at your back.
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