Noul Neamţ Monastery
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Noul Neamţ (Romanian; Russian: Ново-Нямецкий, Novo-Nyametsky) is an all-male monastery located in Chiţcani, near Tighina, geographically in Basarabia but controlled by the breakaway Transnistrian authorities. It is also known as Mănastirea Chiţcani (Russian: Kitskani Monastery), and it is the biggest religious complex under the control of Transnistrian authorities.
The name (which means New Neamţ in English) signifies that the monastery is a successor of the Neamţ Monastery in Romania (medieval Moldavia).
The monastery was founded in 1861, when several monks from the Neamţ monastery in Romania left and founded Noul-Neamţ in Chiţcani. The founding of the new monastery was a protest against the measures taked in Romania to confiscate monastery estates and forbid the usage of Slavonic language in worship.[1]
On 16 May 1962 Soviet authorities closed the monastery; the buildings became a hospital.
The monastery church was reopened in 1989, followed in 1991 by the Romanian-language school for Orthodox priests.[2]
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| Moldovan control | Transnistrian control | ||
| Northern security zone | Cocieri1 • Vasilievca1 • Corjova1 • Mahala1 • Molovata Nouă1 • | Dubăsari5 • Roghi1 | |
| Southern security zone | Varniţa2 • Copanca3 | Bendery4 • Proteagailovca4 • Gâsca3 • |
Notes: 1 belongs to Dubăsari district; 2 belongs to Anenii Noi district; 3 belongs to Căuşeni district;
4 also known as Bender or Tighina; belongs to Municipality of Bender; 5 belongs to Territorial unit Transnistria
