St. Elijah–Rahova Church
The St. Elijah–Rahova Church () is a Romanian Orthodox The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; , ), or Romanian Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church. S ... church located at 79 Constantin Silvestru Street in Bucharest, Romania. It is dedicated to the Prophet Elijah. The church was built on the site of an earlier church, called ''Gorgănel'', that had been founded in 1706 by Safta, the daughter of Constantin Brâncoveanu, and destroyed during the 1802 Vrancea earthquake, 1802 earthquake. ''Vornic'' Fotache Știrbey led an initiative to rebuild the church, which after his 1828 death was taken up by Neofit, the Archdiocese of Râmnic, Bishop of Râmnic, and ''Ban (title), Ban'' George Filipescu. The land, inherited by Iancu Bălcescu (uncle of Nicolae Bălcescu, Nicolae), was sold in 1835 to ''Clucer'' Bobescu. The new church was bu ...
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