The natural formation was in fact a promontory of the cornice of the lower terrace of the Dâmboviţa River, which passes the Romanian capital through the south-eastern part.

[6] In 1736, Constantine Mavrocordatos, the son of Nicholas and the successor on the throne of Wallachia, added a chapel on the east side the ensemble, as well as several other buildings forming a new, smaller enclosure, in the western part of the first one.

[7] In 1973, Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi visited Romania and suggested dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu the idea of establishing a museum of religious art inside the ensemble.

[8] In the period 1974–1977, a group of specialists led by the architect Liana Bilciurescu restored the eastern part of the precinct with the church, the 1977 earthquake affecting it insignificantly.

Although several Romanian intellectual personalities such as Constantin Noica, Geo Bogza, Mihail Şora, Dan Nasta, Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga, Răzvan Theodorescu, Dinu C. Giurescu, Grigore Ionescu and Peter Derer signed a memorandum to save the monastery, the imminent demolition began in the fall of 1985.

[9] In the precinct of the Văcăreşti Monastery, shortly before the demolition, Romanian film director Sergiu Nicolaescu shot several battle scenes which implied tanks and other heavy military equipment for the film "The Last Assault" (We, those on the front line) (1986), causing serious damage to the ensemble, such as the fracture of the marble cross of one of the founders of the monastery Constantine Mavrocordatos, forcing the padlocks and iron bars that closed the chapel, as well as the altar door of the Great Church, a fact that determined the intervention of the staff of the National History Museum of Romania at the higher levels.