Bucur Church

For a long time, many historians have insisted that the building is in a style specific to the 18th century,[1] while others have held to the legend which claims that the church was built by the shepherd Bucur, whose name is also associated with the name of the city of Bucharest.

Although the church is recorded in a number of texts by both Romanian and foreign authors as having been built by the founder of Bucharest, the shepherd Bucur, later researchers have concluded that the building was constructed in the 17th century, and rebuilt in the first half of the 18th.

In the work "The History of the Founding of the city of Bucharest – the Capital of the Kingdom of Romania – from 1330 to 1850" (Istoria fondarei orașului București – capitala Regatului Român – de la 1330 până la 1850) collected from many early writers and gathered together in 1891 by Dimitrie Papazoglu [ro], are recorded many texts which assert that the church was built by the shepherd Bucur.

[4] In 1938, Grigore Ionescu's guide to Bucharest[5] stated that in 1869 the church was rebuilt with an identity 300 years older than that which it had previously had.

However, as a consequence of recent research, a manuscript by the Catholic Missionary Blasius Kleiner, written in 1761 has been discovered, which confirms the legend.