Nativity of St. John the Baptist Church, Piatra Neamț

Ioan Botezătorul), located at 2 Piața Libertății, Piatra Neamț, Romania, is a Romanian Orthodox church.

Later, when the interior space was enlarged, a large opening featuring a pronounced transverse arch was made in the wall.

There are two apses built into the thick nave walls and visible from outside, accompanied by buttresses and covered in a cut stone structure as high as the springers.

[1] On the exterior, the base offers a solid support and has artistic touches as well: it is accurately designed, has a series of horizontal bands in relief that emphasize its depth, and there is an inclined plane connecting it to the next level.

[1] The rest of the building gave an opportunity for anonymous local craftsmen to display artistic talent that was both characteristic of its time period and quite varied.

Symmetrically juxtaposed with two small niches above a large one, they are all set off by frames of brightly colored face brick.

Being a princely church, Stephen furnished it with valuable objects, including a 1502 Gospel Book designed by the hieromonk Spiridon of Putna Monastery.

The next floor was formerly accessed by a ladder, replaced by a metal staircase; higher up, there is an interior stairway up to the bell chamber.

An 1847 engraving by Gheorghe Asachi shows no upper deck, but this was certainly in place by 1861, when a public subscription was opened for purchasing and mounting a giant clock.