Holy Monastery of St. Niphon, in Suburbs of Bucharest Not many years ago this monastery was bulldozed by the Communists and its Abbot, Hieromonk Flavian, assigned to 2 years in an isolation cell with no human contact and no light. Since his release the monastery has grown to over 50 monks. They are rapidly rebuilding the monastery with the help of local laypeople. The monastery owns a small marble factory where they cut and polish their own marble for the church. Among other things they publish a very fine traditionalist journal that helps keep the faithful aware of the issues that affect the Church today, and especially those resisting ecumenism and modernism.
All photos are of the interior of the massive monastery church, in the process of being frescoed.
The dollar goes a long way in Romania.