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Putna Monastery

1466 · 15th century

Putna Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery in Bukovina, north-eastern Romania, founded by Stephen the Great in 1466 and consecrated in 1470. It became the burial place of Stephen and his family and a centre of manuscript copying and embroidery. Rebuilt after damage in the 17th century, it remains a place of national pilgrimage in Romania.

Putna Monastery
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Principality of Moldavia

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