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A visit of the Noul Neamt Monastery in Chitcani | Trip to Moldova & Transnistria 2021

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Noul Neamt Monastery is an all-male Moldovan Orthodox monastery located in Chitcani, near Bender and Tiraspol. Geographically located in the historical region of Basarabia, it is today controlled by the breakaway Transnistrian authorities. It is also known as Chitcani Monastery.
The name (which means "New Neamt" in English) signifies that the monastery is a successor of the Neamt Monastery in medieval Moldavia. The monastery was founded in 1861, when several monks from the Neamț monastery left and founded Noul-Neamt in Chitcani. The founding of the new monastery was a protest against the measures taken in United Principalities of Romania to confiscate monastery estates and forbid the usage of Slavonic language in worship. At the time, Chitcani, like all of Bessarabia, was part of the Russian Empire since 1812.
On 16 May 1962 Soviet authorities closed the monastery; the buildings became a hospital.
The monastery church was reopened in 1989, followed in 1991 by the Romanian-language school for Orthodox priests, under the leadership of Wincenty Morari, bishop of Bender. Since 1992, the town is controlled by the internationally not recognised state of Transnistria.

English title: A visit of the Noul Neamt Monastery in Chitcani | Trip to Moldova & Transnistria 2021
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