St. Simeon Stylites Orthodox Monastery
St. Simeon Stylites Orthodox Monastery
Original function:
monastery / nunnery / canon's house / provost residence
Current function:
monastery / nunnery / canon's house / provost residence
Historical Hungarian county:
Arad
GPS coordinates:
46.2186042513, 21.2729774733
History
In 1760, the Orthodox Bishop Sinesie Jivanovici signed a contract with the master builder Egidius Ienowein of Arad to build the church and the mansion. It was built on the northern edge of the once independent village of Gáj in the Baroque style. It was the Orthodox bishop's seat for two decades and then became a summer residence. In the first half of the 19th century, the church was a parish church until the separation of the Serbian and Romanian Orthodox Churches, and after the separation of the two national churches (1864) it was used only by the Romanian community until the First World War. After the Romanian invasion, a new Romanian church was built in the village centre, the old one stood empty. In 1955 the Orthodox women's monastery was founded, which is still in operation today. The new neo-Byzantine church next to it was built recently.
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