| GPS | (47.655193328857; 26.257944107056) |
| district | Suceava |
| region | Suceava |
| locality | Suceava |
| address | |
| category | Religious attractions |
| year | 1639 |
| ethnic | Romanians |
On the place where today is ”The Assumption” church from Itcanii Vechi bourough, there was a wooden church dating form the time of Petru Mușat (1375-1391). The church was first mentioned in 1935 (being contemporary with Mirăuți Church from Suceava), being founded by a Moldavian boyar called Iațco. Ițcani Monastery, ”of Iațco from Suceava country”, initially operated as a nuns' church, receiving gifts from serveral princes of Moldavia. In 1639, in the place of the wooden church, a masonry church was built. In the narthex of the church there are nine funerarary stones, dating back the XVIth century (1510-1590) and coming, of course, from the old monastery of Iațco, among which five contain inscriptions mentioning Romanian names, two of them- greek names, one – a Ruthene name and the last one – a vague name. After the annexation of Bukovina by the Habsburgs in the year 1775, Ițcani became a part of Bukovina Duchy and the Habsburg authorities dissolved the Nuns Monastery from Ițcani based on the Emperor's Ordinnace of June 19, 1783 issued by the Emperor Iosif the IInd. After the dissolvation of the monastery, the church was turned into a parish church, and still is. The church was built of raw stone, being entirley plastered, exceptions making some special parts (the belt, the chanels and the columns). It has a triconch shape, with the tower above the nave, having an open porch whose semicircular arches are supported by circular or square section columns. Inside of the porch there are still traces of fresco, as well as imitations of painting. In the left side of the church there is zvonnitza-type bell tower, built separately from the church building and containing three arches supported by massive pillars. Zvonnitza-type bell towers are often encountered only in the churches from the Northern Moldavia.
