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In Neamt county, the monastery in Secu is a convent for monks. It consists of 2 larger churches, a small chapel and several other buildings.
It was founded in 1602 by Nestor Ureche, the father of the renowned chronicler Grigore Ureche. This massive construction belongs to a new wave in the architecture of Moldavia which was characteristic at the end of the 16th century.
The monastery shelters a rich treasure-house with many religious items, all of them of great patrimonial value: manuscripts, ecclesiastical objects that were made of metal and pieces of embroidery, as well as sacerdotal attire. After the year 2000m the chapel “Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra”, which is located within the monastery, was restored and repainted.
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