The Church of the "Stavropoleos" Monastery
Ornate eighteenth-century Brâncovenesc church with carved stone portico and a quiet monastery courtyard.
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This guide to Stavropoleos Church in Bucharest begins with a stone cross in the courtyard and the village priest buried beneath it. It follows Dumitru Iliescu-Palanca from the day in nineteen forty he took over a ruined, forgotten church to the spring of nineteen forty-eight, when an old classmate came to him with a request. Along the way you'll meet the Iron Guard crackdown, the secret police and the prisons of Stalinist Romania. Best heard standing beside the cross.
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