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    Biserica Sf. Ioan cel Nou -Nicoriţa © Alex Petrescu
  • Biserica Sf. Ioan cel Nou -Nicoriţa
    Biserica Sf. Ioan cel Nou -Nicoriţa © Alex Petrescu
  • Biserica Sf. Ioan cel Nou -Nicoriţa
    Biserica Sf. Ioan cel Nou -Nicoriţa © Alex Petrescu

Biserica Sf. Ioan cel Nou -Nicoriţa

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Str. Nicoriţă 1

1626 - 1629

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In the immediate vicinity of the Tătărași Athenaeum is the Nicoriță Church, built in 1626 by the hetman of Nicoară. It adopts a three-lobed plan, with apses flanked by buttresses. Although it has a lower height than usual for Moldovan churches, it presents, through the existence of the two superimposed plans of the tower - one square-shaped and the other stellate with twelve peaks -, the typical characteristics of the churches built in Moldova in that period.


Its exterior, similar to that of the Aroneanu church, reveals numerous elements of mountain inspiration, such as the belt that divides the facade into two unequal registers or the delimitation of the grooves on the facade and the cusps, also present on the church tower. Initially, the church, in its original form, probably had an open porch, later closed for reasons of strength, perhaps when the bell tower was built above it.


In the last part of her career, the great artist of the Romanian theater, Aglae Pruteanu, retired to this area, who lived in a modest house on Călărași Street no. 27.


In Tătărași there is also the Eternitatea Cemetery.


This cemetery houses the graves of some outstanding personalities of the country and of Iași, including Mihail Kogălniceanu, Mihai Codreanu, George Topârceanu, Dimitrie Anghel, Ion Creangă, Barbu Ștefănescu-Delavrancea, Gavriil Musicescu, Garabet Ibrăileanu, Aglae Pruteanu, Aristizza Romanescu, Agatha Bârsescu, Eduard Caudella, Vasile Conta, Otilia Cazimir and Lucia Mantu (who, although she died in Bucharest, wanted to be buried in her hometown of Iasi, according to her will).


Source: Iași Municipality and surroundings (Ministry of Tourism, 1980)

Alex Petrescu
2 years ago

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