| GPS | (47.94974899292; 26.073442459106) |
| district | Suceava |
| region | Siret |
| locality | Siret |
| address | |
| category | Religious attractions |
| year | Sec.XIV |
| ethnic | Romanians |
The church was built in the XIVth century in the town of Siret and is considered to be one of the oldest churches of stone from Moldavia and the first one built based on the Byzantine triconch plan. It is situated on Str. Victoriei nr. 10 (on Sasca Hill). The complex of the church of ”The Holy Trinity” of Siret is included on the list of historical monuments of Suceava County since 2004, having 2 objectives: •The church of ”The Holy Trinity” dating back 1352. •The Zvonnitsa – dating the XVIIth century. The absence of the documents relating to this church makes that the date of construction and its founders to be still a matter of debates. Some authors believe that the church was built by Sas Vodă (1354-1358) based on the fact that the church is located on Sasca Hill, toponym deriving from the voivode's name. It is situated 300m from the place where tradition records the existence of the fortress built by Sas Vodă and was considered as being the chapel of the Princely Court of Siret. After Petru Mușat moved the throne of Moldavia to Suceava, this place of worship was used as parish church for the believers on Sasca Hill. The presence of some of Siret merchants´ gravestones in the church assumes that their donations made to this church were generous. The church is small compared to a typical church created by a prince: lenght – 16,5m; width- 11m, thickness of the wall – 1,1m, height of the plinth – 40cm. On the outside, the church was decorated with polychromatic ceramic discs, cross-shaped flowers and bricks. The discs are not figurative, but have a simple geometric form. The general shape of the edifice has the specific characteristics of the Moldavian churches: the absence of the tower, the calotte of the nave, the ”blind” recesses and the above-mentioned ceramic decoration. The windows are elongated, framed by carved stone borders. Here and there, fragments of frescoes can still be seen. The same decoration elements can be seen above the upper part of the icon above the entry door, which has a cornice above. The interior of the church comprises the narthex, the nave and the sanctuary. There is no entry portal, the church being accessed through a door directly to the narthex. The narthex has a small window on the south, in the nave there are two windows, and in the sanctuary there is another one placed in the centre of the apse. The narthex is rectangular and narrow, being vaulted with a semi-cylinder which starts directly from a thick stone wall, having an arched door in the middle. The nave is elongated in the direction of the longitudinal axis, being covered with a vault supported by four semi-cylindrical arches: two are narrow and surround the two side apses and two are wider, unequal, supported by consoles. The sanctuary is one step higher than the nave and has a semi- circular shape, with three windows. The church was never painted. A valuable iconostasis made in the ”Moldavian baroque” style, from at least the beginning of the XIXth century, was renovated in 1841 by the merchant Panait Goraș, with the help of the inhabitants of the parish and replaced with a new one in the year 1995.
