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The „Dormition of the Virgin Mary” Church, Tatomireşti village, Commune Rebricea, Vaslui County (code LMI 2004: VS-II-m-A-06887)
Built in 1792 by the seneschal Arghire Cuza and his wife, Ilinca, daughter of the high official Lupu Costache, as court chapel.
It is built of stone on a three-apse plan, with semi-circular apses, without a tower. The roof support is covered by shingles. It stands out by the stone façade, of Classicist influence, with profiled plinth, lesenes and cornice emphasized by retracting moulds. The interior was initially provided with resonance pots and decorated with “gypsum flowers” on the vaults, made of stucco. A cross-spring separates the nave and narthex, supported on two attached pillars. The narthex is covered by a spherical cap, the nave is covered by a splayed cap, and the lateral apses are covered by semi-caps, all in stone, supported on cross-springs.
The church was repaired in 1834, by the police prefect Iordache Cuza, the founder’s son, according to the plan of the architect I. Fogaras, who also made the project for the road-house. The 19th century altar screen, oil on wood, Russian school, was restored in 1939, under the guidance of the Commission for Historic Monuments.
The burial stones of the founders and their family are found in the narthex. Part of the church’s dower of old books is nowadays found at the Diocesan Museum in Huşi and the Stephan the Great Museum in Vaslui County.
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