| GPS | (47.814380645752; 25.900266647339) |
| district | Suceava |
| region | Volovăţ |
| locality | Volovăţ |
| address | |
| category | Religious attractions |
| year | 1893 |
| ethnic | Romanians |
This is a church built by Stephen the Great between the years 1500 and 1502, in the place where the wooden church of Volovăț was, situated 4 km south-west from Rădăuți town. The church suffered several times during time, remaining even deserted for a while. It was restored in 1752 by the bishop Dosoftei Herescu of Rădăuți (1750-1789), receiving, on this occasion, the iconostasis of ”St. Nicholas ” Church of Rădăuți as a gift. In the year 1825, the parish priest Ioan Grigorovici conducted extensive restoration works to the church. In 1856, a wooden bell tower was built. After a storm, in 1871 the roof was rebuilt. In 1885 the interior walls were painted in oil colour. Here, the priest Iraclie Porumbescu and Emilia Clodnițchi, the parents of the future composer Ciprian Porumbescu were married. In the year 2007, while cleaning the interior walls of the church, a fragment of wall painting was found, thus invalidating the theory that the church was never painted. The church has a rectangular shape, with unitary semi-cylindrical vaults supported by consoles and gathered under a single roof. At the outside, the church is supported by three Gothic abutments on the one side and the other of the narthex and the nave, and the sanctuary apse is supported by two small abutments. The church is surrounded by two rows of recesses – four in the upper row corresponding to three in the bottom row. The window of the sanctuary apse ends in a semi-circular arch, all the other widnows having frames in broken arch. The church is divided in narthex, nave and sanctuary. The narthex can be accessed through a portal surrounded by four Gothic mouldings, with decorated frames and ended in an arc. The narthex has two windows, one on the southern side and the other of the northern side. In order to cross from the narthex to the nave one must pass through a door with rectangular border, situated in the middle of a wall. The nave is two steps lower than the narthex and the sanctuary, so that the people in narthex can see the sermon without standing up. The light enters the nave by two windows, one on the southern side and the other on the northern one. The sanctuary apse is very large and semispherical, the light entering by a window arranged on the axis. The diaconicon and the prosomidiar are deep and lighted each by a small window.
