The Curchi Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in Vatici, Orhei District, Moldova. There are several churches on the site, including the baroque cathedral Nașterea Domnului, which was designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli and has the highest dome in Moldova. The monastery was used as a psychiatric hospital between 1959 and 1999, but it reopened as a monastery in 2005.
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- Wikipedia (en) – Curchi Monastery (en.wikipedia.org)
- Wikipedia (ro) – Mănăstirea Curchi (ro.wikipedia.org)
- Wikipedia (pl) – Monaster Curchi (pl.wikipedia.org)
- Wikidata – Q4248462 (wikidata.org)
- Wikimedia Commons – Curchi Monastery (commons.wikimedia.org)
- OpenStreetMap – relation 8543153 (openstreetmap.org)
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