Noul Neamț Monastery

Noul Neamț Monastery

Location	Chițcani, Căușeni District
Country	Moldova
Denomination	Eastern Orthodoxy
History
Founded	1864
Architecture
Status	Monastery

Noul Neamț Monastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Noul Neamț) is an all-male Moldovan Orthodox monastery located in Chiţcani, near Tighina, geographically in Basarabia, but controlled by the breakaway Transnistrian authorities. It is also known as Chițcani Monastery.

Overview

The name (which means "New Neamț" in English) signifies that the monastery is a successor of the Neamț Monastery in Romania (medieval Moldavia).

The monastery was founded in 1861, when several monks from the Neamț monastery left and founded Noul-Neamț in Chițcani. The founding of the new monastery was a protest against the measures taken in United Principalities of 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]

Gallery

Carving in a tree on the territory of the monastery
1997 stamp

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kitskany monastery.

External links

The official website
Mănăstirea "Înălțarea Domnului", Noul Neamț at ortodoxia.md
Mănăstirea Noul Neamț at crestinortodox.ro
Chițcani Monastery

Geography of the Transnistrian conflict

Moldovan control

Transnistrian control

Northern security zone	Cocieri (Vasilievca) ¹ Corjova (Mahala) ¹ Molovata Nouă¹ Coşniţa (Pohrebea) ¹ Pârâta¹ Doroţcaia¹

Southern security zone	Varniţa² Copanca³

Northern security zone	Dubăsari⁵ Roghi¹

Southern security zone	Bendery⁴ (Proteagailovca⁴) Gîsca³ Chițcani (Mereneşti • Zahorna) ³ Cremenciug³

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 the territorial unit Transnistria

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