Doamnei Church
The Lady's Church ( ro, Biserica Doamnei) is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 1 Doamnei Street in Bucharest, Romania, hidden behind an apartment block on Calea Victoriei. It is dedicated to the Presentation of Mary. History Successive churches were built on the site, which belonged in turn to the Mogoșești-Grădișteni, Craiovești and Cantacuzino family, Cantacuzino families. In the 1950s, archaeological excavations unearthed the likely traces of an earlier church, as well as fifteen graves from the 15th through 18th centuries, attributed to an old churchyard. At one point, a wooden church stood there. It was re-founded by Lady Maria, the wife of Șerban Cantacuzino, probably before 1677, the earliest recorded mention of the parish and, indirectly, the church. A 1684 document explicitly mentions the church. The church was linked to the large houses that Șerban built nearby, and was intended as a chapel for a future princely court. As attested by the ''pisanie'', it was re ...
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