Before today's monastery was built, there was a wooden hermitage on the same site, built by Hieromonk Ioannichie in 1774. It was destroyed by the Turkish invasion of 1788. A new wooden church was built in its place.
The small church of the monastery was built in 1820 by Alexandru Ipsilanti, with Caraiman stone. The monastery bell tower was built in 1827.
The large church of the monastery, with a flat plan, was built between 1833 and 1836. The monastery library contains several valuable books, including a gospel printed in Bucharest in 1775, a book printed in Vienna in 1885, a Bible from Blaj ( 1795) and a gospel from Budapest (1812).
In the second half of the 19th century, the first primary school in Predeal operated around the monastery.
Source: Brașov memorial - Ștefan Petraru, Constantin Catrina (Ed. Sport-Turism 1976), page 71
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The Predeal Monastery, built in 1774 by the monk Ioanichie at the foot of the Clăbucet mountain, particularly highlights a valuable pediment carved in wood in 1740. It was brought in 1840 from the church of St. Nicholas in Scheii Brașov. In addition, the monastery preserves several church books, including a Gospel printed in Blaj in 1795 and a Gospel printed in Budapest in 1812.
The town of Predeal marks the end of the string of climactic towns on the upper Prahova valley and is found at the point where the road crosses from the southern to the northern slopes of the Carpathians. This places Predeal as the highest urban settlement in Romania, at an altitude of 1040 meters, also having the railway station located at the highest altitude.
In the 18th century, the existence of "inns for hospitality and hospitality" is mentioned here, and in 1774, a hermitage was established, the precursor of the current Predeal monastery. The documents attest to the presence of a forester named Ion Costea, whose child marries Moise Zangor, who came from Comarnic. Moise Zangor becomes the first householder in Predeal after he builds his first wooden house in 1850, near the road to Râșnov.
The rapid development of the settlement takes place with the appearance of the Predeal customs office, the construction of the road and the railway. The hearth of the village known as Predeluș or Malul Ursului dates back to around the turn of the 19th century. In 1912, Predeal became a separate commune, and in 1935, it obtained the status of a city.
The first houses built in the area have the typical characteristics of Romanian mountain architecture, having a stone foundation, walls made of thick wooden beams and a shingle roof. The first villas appear at the end of the 19th century, keeping their similarities with those of the Swiss Alps.
Source: Bucharest-Brașov on Prahova Valley (Ministry of Tourism, 1976)
