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Monastery of Saint Antim, Bucharest

Saint Antim Ivireanul founded the monastery that was built between 1713 and 1715. As architecture, artistic conception and ornamental patterns, the church is characteristic of the trefoil architectural style that flourished during the reign of Constantin Brancoveanu Waivode. In 1912, within the monastery the Palace of Synod was built where in present is accommodated the Library of Synod.
The holy establishment underwent extensive repairs and restorations in the fifties, under the earnest care of Justinian, the Patriarch of Orthodox Church of Romania at that time.
Following the systematization works that were carried out in this area on the orders of the communist authorities in 1984, the Palace of Synod was removed twenty-five meters away from its original location, being rotated by thirteen degrees.

On 20th, June 1992, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church decreed canonization of the founder of the monastic establishment, Antim Ivireanul, Metropolitan of Walachia (between 1708 and1716), a religious figure in the highest moral rank and an outstanding cultural personality.

The celebration day of Saint Antim is on September 27th.