Curchi Monastery

Curchi, Italy

The Curchi Monastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Curchi) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in Vatici, Orhei District, Moldova. There are several churches on the site, including the baroque cathedral Nașterea Domnului, which was designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli and has the highest dome in Moldova. The monas

tery was used as a psychiatric hospital between 1959 and 1999, but it reopened as a monastery in 2005.

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