It was built between 1713 and 1715 by Saint Antim Ivireanu, at that time a Metropolitan Bishop of Wallachia.

The monastery also hosts a museum with religious objects and facts about the life of Antim Ivireanu.

[2] During the communist rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu, 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.

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