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The Wooden Church of "St. Voievods” of the Monastery of Mălineşti, Gârceni Village, Gârceni Commune, Vaslui County (code LMI 2004, cod VS-II-m-B-06799)
Built in 1826 by the community of monarchs, near the old church of the hermitage from 1762. The works were made by masters Gheorghe and Teodor. The hermitage from the 18th century was founded by monarch Nicodim Hudici from Gârceni. There was also a school of church singers that functioned besides the hermitage that ended its activity after the secularization of the monastery patrimonies from 1863. Being deprived of the two domains nearby: the Gârcenii and the Mărmurenii, that ensured its existence, the hermitage was dissolved. In 1925 it was reopened with the efforts of the bishop of Huşi, Iacov Antonovici, and with the moral and material help of general Constantin Prezan and his wife Olga who had established treir residence in the neighbor village, Schinetea. Due to this occasion, the church and the cells were redecorated in 1928. The hermitage of the mothers earned its existence from self income from exploiting the 7 hectares of arable land and 30 hectares of forest, plus the sums from the sales of the goods produced in their own workshops. Within the hermitage, there functioned a weaving mill of linen drapery and carpets. In 1936 the traditional weaving machines were replaced with mechanic ones with the help of Marshal Constantin Prezan. In 1959, the hermitage was again dissolved and the church became a parish, branch of “Saint Nicholas” Rectory from Gârceni. In 1995, the monarchal hermitage was again established as a monk monastery within which a chapel and cells were built, offering spaces for food and accommodation.
Three-apse church, with belfry on the threshold and two spires of octagonal section on the nave and the altar and entrance from the south. It is built of beam girder bound “in bender”, on stone foundation and timber support and a four shade roof. The facades were covered with shingles after 1995. The vaults are octagonal on the nave and altar with simple arch ribs. The passing from the narthex to the nave is marked by two separating pillars (there were initially four of them) on which a beam is supported, decorated in accolade. In the threshold, over the porch cogged in accolade, there is the religious inscription carved in the beam with Cyrillic letters.
The iconostasis of carved wood, painted in oil, dated from the 19th century is also preserved here. The stock of old books with notes from the 18th – 19th centuries could be found in the municipal Museum of Huşi.
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