The Antim Monastery () is a

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church located in

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on Mitropolit Antim Ivireanu Street, no. 29. It was built between 1713 and 1715 by Saint Antim Ivireanu, at that time a

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. The buildings were restored by

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in the 1960s. As of 2005, there were 7 monks living in the Monastery. The monastery also hosts a museum with religious objects and facts about the life of Antim Ivireanu. The Monastery is connected to the

Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom Between 21 and 23 January 1941, a rebellion of the Iron Guard paramilitary organization, whose members were known as Legionnaires, occurred in Bucharest, Romania. As their privileges were being gradually removed by the '' Conducător'' Ion An ...

. On January 22, 1941, led by Hieromonk Nicodem Ioniță, the monks of Antim armed themselves and, using explosives, blew up a synagogue on Antim Street. The numerous Jewish inhabitants of the neighborhood hid in terror. Some of the monks involved were graduates of the Cernica Seminary, a Legionary stronghold. During the communist rule of

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, the government threatened demolition of the church and many other historic structures in Romania. A project organized by engineer Eugeniu Iordăchescu moved the church to a different nearby site and saved it in time.

Gallery

Bucharest Palace of the Holy Synod Library (2023) - img 01.jpg, Palace of the Holy Synod Library Antim Monastery Bucharest (March 2023) - img 01.jpg, The belfry entrance File:Bucharest - Antim Monastery (28662067540).jpg, Antim Monastery Church Antim Monastery Bucharest (March 2023) - img 02.jpg, Abbot's house Antim Monastery Bucharest (March 2023) - img 03.jpg, Entry door to the church building Image:Detaliu_Coloana_Manastirea_Antim.JPG, Detail of an outside column in front of the Church File:Carol Popp de Szathmari - Antim.jpg, Photograph from 1867 by

Carol Szathmari Carol Szathmari (Romanian: Carol Popp de Szathmari, Hungarian: Szathmáry Pap Károly; 11 January 1812, Kolozsvár – 3 July 1887, Bucharest) was a Romania, Romanian painter, lithographer, and photographer of Hungarians, Transylvanian Hungari ...

Antim Monastery-9.jpg, Interior of the church File:Stamps of Romania, 2013-62.jpg, Stamp from 2013, commemorating 300 years Ceiling of the porch of the Antim Monastery Church 2.jpg, Murals on the porch entrance

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