| GPS | ( 47. 56366; 26. 01579) |
| district | Suceava |
| region | Siret |
| locality | Siret |
| address | |
| category | Religious attractions |
| year | 1673 |
| ethnic | Romanians |
The church is situated 3,5 km from the centre of Siret town, being part of Mănăstioara village, today a district of the town. Founded by the prince Ștefan Petriceicu in 1673, the church of Saint Onufrie is included, since 2004, on the list of historical monuments of the county of Suceava. The main objectives which can be visited are: the church built in 1673 and the church well which seems to have been built in 1765. Saint Onufrie´s church from Mănăstioara-Siret was declared historical monument in 1919. Saint Onufrie´s church architecture of Mănăstioara-Siret is made out of stone, with trefoiled shape and thick walls (1,40-2 m), supported at the outside by 7 counter-forts 5 m high. According to the art historian Vasile Drăguț, the church is ”a replica of Putna, at a smaller scale, but of a significant beauty”. The beautiful arched interior of the church has 4 rooms: porch, narthex, nave and sanctuary. The entrance to the porch is made through two doors of the same size (one on the south side and the other on the north, which is currently unused). The light enters the porch by two large windows on the west side. The porch is separated from the narthex by a massive stone wall, cut through an oak door dating from the construction of the church. The narthex has two arched semi-circular side niches, decorated with stone-carved parallel arches. The narthex is separated from the nave not by a wall, but by two massive stone columns, forming three vaulted arches. The nave is one step lower than the narthex and is widened by two side apses interrupted by three windows widened at the outside and narrowed at the inside. Above the nave, there is an octogonal tower supported by a star-shaped frame. The sanctuary has a semi-circular shape, with three windows under which there are three niches, the middle one being bigger than the rest. The iconostasis is made of linden, beautifully carved and painted with tempera and gold leaf by a monk from Putna. The tower pilasters and caps, as well as the windows framing are among the last elements of gothic decoration from Moldavia. The church was initially covered with shingles, but in the second half of the XXth century, it was covered with sheet metal. The church is not painted on the inside. In the east part of the church there is the well, having the collector tank made of stone, founded by the bishop Ioanichie of Roman in 1765, and in the west part there is the Holy Cross, beautifully decorated since the 1866.
