AltădatăExisting church · 1774–1790
Chiajna Monastery
Chiajna Monastery, on the edge of the Giulești neighborhood, was begun under Alexandru Ipsilanti (1774–1782) and completed in the time of Nicolae Mavrogheni (1786–1790), in the Neoclassical style and on a scale that was large for the period: 43 m long, 17 m high, with walls 1–2 m thick. According to tradition, it was never consecrated, having been bombarded by the Turks, who mistook it for a fortress, and then abandoned during the plague. The ruin lost its tower in the 1977 earthquake and still suffers today from the trains and airplanes that pass very close by. Monastic life resumed here in 2008.
See the place on the old maps ›Text source: ro.wikipedia.org · summary based on the source
On the old maps
The place appears on 21 maps and images, from 1790 to today:
- 1790 · Specht Plan
- 1864 · Szathmari Plan
- ~1940 · Artillery Firing Plans
- 1943 · Aerial photo 1943
- 1966 · Satellite image 1966
- 1969 · Map of Bucharest 1969
- 1972 · Satellite image 1972
- 1976 · Satellite image 1976
- 1977 · Satellite image 1977
- 1978 · Satellite image 1978
- 1979 · Satellite image 1979
- 1980 · Satellite image 1980
- 1982 · Satellite image 1982
- 1982 · ITB Plan
- 1983 · Satellite image 1983
- 1984 · Satellite image 1984
- ~1985 · Soviet Topographic Map
- 1990 · Cadastral Plan
- 2001 · AGC Polonia Plan
- 2017 · Orthophoto 2017
- today · Current satellite
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