Leafpile visits Monasteries in Romania

Sucevita Monastery in Bucovina
as seen from the Cloisters in 2002.

Orthodox Monasteries:

Sapinta:
Building Europe's tallest wooden church

Birsana:
A world of warm wooden structures.

Moisei Pilgrimage:
Virgins Celebrate the Dormition of Mary every August 15th

Painted Monasteries
of Bucovina:
Moldovita
Smallest and most intimate.

Humorului
See the frescoes inside.

Voronet
Last Judgment in vivid blue.

Sucevita
Largest of the painted monasteries, with a fantastic Jacob's Ladder