Valea Mare Monastery
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The Valea Mare Monastery in Covasna County was founded in 1998. His Eminence Bishop Ioan Selejan consecrated the site of the future monastery on 10 September 2000. The first building of the monastery complex is a small wooden church, built in the maramureșean style. The foundation works for the other buildings, the chapel, the cloister and the main chapel, the winter chapel and the large church, as envisaged in the plan drawn up by the architects Dan Corneliu and Ioan Teodor, began in 2000 and were largely completed in 2004.
Between 2004 and 2009, construction and finishing works continued: the external facades of the new buildings, the installation of marble in the large church, the electrical, sanitary and heating installations, the paving of the alleys leading to the church and the access roads, the installation of the chapels in the parishes and the archdeaconry kitchens for pilgrims, the construction of two ponds and other domestic outbuildings. Between 2008 and 2009, painting work was carried out in the chapel dedicated to St George, with Byzantine-style frescoes, and in June 2009, work began on the main church dedicated to the Nativity of St John the Baptist.
Between 2004 and 2009, construction and finishing works continued: the external facades of the new buildings, the installation of marble in the large church, the electrical, sanitary and heating installations, the paving of the alleys leading to the church and the access roads, the installation of the chapels in the parishes and the archdeaconry kitchens for pilgrims, the construction of two ponds and other domestic outbuildings. Between 2008 and 2009, painting work was carried out in the chapel dedicated to St George, with Byzantine-style frescoes, and in June 2009, work began on the main church dedicated to the Nativity of St John the Baptist.
