Monasticism in Ieudul Maramureșului has its origins in the 11th-12th centuries, when the settlement of the Holy Three Hierarchs was built on a plateau in the southeast of the town.
Next to the monastery there was a school where writing, reading, arithmetic, church singing and the Greek, Slavonic and Latin languages were taught. The Codicele de la Ieud, the oldest Romanian writing, dating from 1391-1392, and which is now at the Romanian Academy, was written here.
In 1889, there were only three monks left in the monastery, who had to leave because of the local authorities, who opposed the Orthodox character of the monastery. The monastery church was demolished and the resulting wood was used to build a shop.
After 1989, one hundred years after the expulsion of the monks, the parish priest Alexandru Brici initiated the necessary steps for the re-establishment of the monastery.
On September 4, 1993, Bishop Justinian of Maramureș and Sătmar consecrated the place where the new place of worship was to be built, the construction works being completed in 2003.
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