The Galata Monastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Galata) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery for nuns, founded at the end of the sixteenth century by Moldavian Voivode Petru Șchiopul,[1] in the west of Iași, Romania.

The church, surrounded by walls with loopholes and provided with a bell tower at the entrance, looks like a fortress, often serving as a place of defense and sometimes as a royal residence.

In the summer of 1577, in its first reign, the Voivode sent a letter to the leaders of Bistrița in which he requested specialists in construction, being dissatisfied by the Moldavian constructors.

It is assumed that the monastery consecration ceremony took place before February 22, 1578, when the ruler and the metropolitan bishops have constituted its main patrimony.

The chronicler Grigore Ureche also wrote in his books about the foundation of the monastery in 1578.