| GPS | (47.593555450439; 25.854261398315) |
| district | Suceava |
| region | Mănăstirea Humorului |
| locality | Mănăstirea Humorului |
| address | |
| category | Religious attractions |
| year | 1530 |
| ethnic | Romanians |
This is an orthodox monastery, built in 1530 in the village of Mănăstrirea Humorului by the great logothete Toader Bubuiog, great chancellor and a member of the Moldavia divan and his wife, Anastasia. The monastery’s church celebrates his patronal feast day on the Assumption day (celebrated each year on August 15) and the Saint Martyr George (celebrated on the April 23). The monastery contains four objectives: •The church of ”The Assumption” and ”St. George”– built in 1530; •The ruins of the monastery houses – dating back the XVI-XVIIIth centuries; •The tower bell – dating from the XIXth century; •The tower of Vasile Lupu – built in 1641. •In the year 1993, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) included the church of ”The Assumption” and ”St. George” of Humor Monastery, together with other 6 churches from the North of Moldavia, on list of the world cultural heritage, in the group of Painted Churches from the North of Moldavia. •The church of Humor monastery is one of the best known creations of the Romanian middle age. This sanctum is situated almost 300m from the ruins of an older monastery church whose construction was made during the time of Alexander the Good (1400-1432). •The architecture of this holy monument from Humor presents a special interest. Here it is used, for the first time in the construction of the churches from Moldavia, the opened porch and a new room upstairs, called vault, which is placed above the burial room. From the porch, one can enter the narthex and then the burial room and the nave. To the east, the church ends with the circular shaped apse of the sanctuary, which is separated from the nave by a very old iconostasis, an exceptional wood sculpture. The iconographic order, in its broad lines, is the traditional, canonical one. The comparative analyses have not yet reach the stage to allow the use of all tones of symbolic language, but it seems that the logothete Teodor Bubuioc had nothing to say to the posterity, like, for instance, Luca Arbore did, the one who was unfairly treated and symbolically rehabilitated by his niece, Ana, with the help of the painter Dragoș Coman on the walls of his founding, or the logothete Tăutu, the one who wanted to assert his culture, taste and prestige, by asking that a unique chapel to be built for him in the yard, with original shapes and rich sculptures.
