Pârveşti Monastery Ensemble, Pârveşti Village, Pârveşti Commune, Vaslui County (code LMI 2004: VS-II-a-A-06865)

Pârveşti hermitage -founded in 1666 by the gate mandarin Apostol Talpeş and his grandchildren, Ioan and Simion Popescu, boyars of Bilahoi – was rebuilt in 1816-1820 by the monk Nicodim Popescu, follower of the founders, with the middle rank commander Gh. Gociu and Ioan Nedelcu. The settlement included the church, the cells and „other annexes”, necessary for the deployment of the monastic activities, being served by 80 monks. Initially, it was dedicated to the Bishopric of Roman, and in 1852 became branch of the Bishopric of Huşi, pursuant to the integration of the land of Tutova to this diocese. It was ruled and kept in good conditions by founders and their descendants until 1856, when the Bishopric of Huşi dictated a foreign administrator. Pursuant to the dissensions which appeared, the economical situation of the hermitage declined. In 1859, only 24 monks used to live here. At that time, in the cells a school functioned, which ceased it’s activity at the same time with the hermitage, after the secularization of the monastic dowers from 1863. The church became of myrrh, branch of Puntişeni parish. In 1993, the monastic settlement was reactivated with the statute of a nun monastery.

The ensemble includes 2 constructions of wood, the church „Saint Nicholas”, and the bell tower. After the opening of the monastery, there were added the cells, on the western side of the precinct. It has spaces for accommodation and food.

The Wooden Church of Saint Nicholas of Pârveşti Monastery, Pârveşti  Village, Costeşti  Commune, Vaslui County (code LMI 2004, cod VS-II-m-A-06865.01)

The church was built between 1816 and 1820 at the initiative of monk Nicodim Popescu, the mandarin Gheorghe Gociu and Ioan Nedelcu, instead of on older place, from 1666, foundation of the gate mandarin Apostol Talpeş and his grandchildren, Ioan and Simion Popescu, boyars of Bilahoi.

Popular wooden architecture, unique through the vaulting system, the construction technique and the harmony of the volumes.

With three-apse plan, with unhooked polygonal apse of the altar, entrance on west and three octagonal steeples on narthex, nave and altar. The threshold, initially open, has a handrail of wood with hacked balusters caught in the frontlet. It’s built of oak drift mandrel, bonded in „straight loops”, on river stone foundation and timber support. The four shade roof is covered with shingle. The façades of drift mandrels, carved with the poleaxes and processed, are decorated with a frieze of dentils under cornice. The rectangular windows are underlined with simple frameworks. The interior is of drift mandrel. The octagonal steeples from the narthex, nave and altar are made of fells of oaks, harmonious and unitary combined with the domes from the lateral apses. The massive oak door from the threshold entrance has the hardware done in local workshop of handicraft.

The place keeps epoch icons and furniture of linden tree, sculpted and painted in oil technique (the iconostasis, the iconostasis of the imperial icons, the pulpit, the church chair, the luster). The cult books, with the denotations of the founders, can be found at the old book storage of the Bishopric of Huşi. At the south of the church there is the funeral stone of George Gr. Oprişanu, member of the Ad-hoc Divan of Moldavia from 1859, passed away at 20^th October 1889. 

The bell tower of Pârveşti Monastery, Pârveşti Village, Costeşti  Commune, Vaslui County (code VS-II-m-A-06865.02)

It is built in 1820, at the initiative of the monk Nicodim Popescu, the mandarin Gh. Gociu, and Ioan Nedelcu, in the western side of the precinct.               

Tower with square plan with two levels defined through an ample cornice, and with pyramidal roof. Built of oak drift mandrels, closed in „straight loops”, on stone plinth. It has interior wooden ladder and frameworks of shingle. Unique copy in the Diocese of Huşi, through structure and setting.

It shelters two bronze bell towers dated since 1819, 1827.