WOODEN CHURCH FROM LECHINȚA – beginning of the 17th century

 The wooden church from Lechința is the only wooden church that has been preserved in the Land of Oaș. It was built at the beginning of the 17th century (approximately 1629) in the village of Lechința, part of the current commune of  Călinești-Oaș. In 1939, when it has been photographed by the ethnographer Ioniță G…. → Read more…

Churches from Negresti-Oas

Negresti-Oas s a multi-confessional and multicultural city. The religious edifices of the city are the trademarks of a religious path that denotes the local peopleā€™s rich spiritual life. Negresti-Oas Orthodox Cathedral What words can only suggest remains for you to live at Negresti-Oas Orthodox Cathedral, the soul and the shrine of Oas Country. The imposing… → Read more…

The monastery from Bixad

The monastery from Bixad, situated on the top of a hill from the village, at 10 km distance from Negresti-Oas, is inhabited by the monks. The monastery is famous for the icon of Holy Virgin that makes miracles. Every year, on 15th August, thousands of pilgrims, from all over the north part of Transylvania gather… → Read more…

The Hermitage Luna Ses

At the laps of Pietroasa Peak from Luna Ses, in a clearing besides which flows down the road that takes you up on the peaks thrones the monastery hermitage ā€œThe Saint Archdeacon Stevenā€. The monkish complex, of an architectural and pastoral beauty is made up of wooden church in Maramures county style with trinity, wooden… → Read more…

The monastery The Saint Trinity ā€“ Moiseni

The monastery The Saint Trinity – Moiseni

One of the spiritual masterpieces of the Oas Country lifts itself piously and harmoniously on one of the peaks of Oas Country, at the interference from Satu Mare county and Maramures county: the monastery ā€œThe Saint Trinity-Moiseniā€, a monastery of nuns, the first and the only one of this sort from the entire Oas Country…. → Read more…

The monastery Portarita

The monastery Portarita

The monastery is situated in Mujdeni, at 16 km from Negresti-Oas. The building is recent one, with towers, a room special fited for taking the meal, and bedrooms for the monks. The church was lately painted. In this place, the Christians keep the old tradition which says that inside of a church, men should stay… → Read more…