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The Wooden Church of Devout Paraskeva, Voineşti village, Commune Voineşti, Vaslui County, (cod LMI 2004: VS-II-m-A -06897)
Built around 1745 by the community, an example of common foundation, in the building of which various social categories participated: free peasants, monks, the prior of the Floreşti-Aftanasie Monastery, the Cerchez family of squires. The first religious dwelling is documentary mentioned in 1460, during the rule of Stephan the Great, functioning as a monastery.
Of small proportions, but harmonious, the church is a unique example in the bishopric of Huşi due to the curiosity of its plan.
Three-apse church, with three-side apse narthex and pentagonal altar apse, south entry. It is built of oak girders, four-side shaped, fixed “in claws” and wooden nails, on coarse stone foundations and thick wood beams. The facades, decorated with a “twisted rope” girdle above the plinth, a saw-tooth frieze under the cornice and geometrical motives on the window frameworks, are hidden under the board. The polygonal-section vault of the narthex and semi-calottes on the lateral apses are the transposition of wall architecture into the wood technique. The passage between the narthex and nave is marked by four separation pillars on which the accolade-decorated main beam sits.
The painting on the iconostasis and tetrapod was made by Anastasie, painter, the Father Superior of Floreşti Monastery, in 1745, according to the Cyrillic inscription below the central icons.
The burial stone of equerry Pavel Cerchez, descendant of the founders, dating from 1842, is found east from the church, in the cemetery.
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