Darvari, the only hermitage of monks hidden in the heart of Bucharest, reborn from abandonment. The monument is the work of the architect Simotta, “the poet of the image”
Faith, modesty and simplicity. In the crowded, chaotic and hurried Bucharest there is an oasis of peace and quiet.
It is a true place of rediscovery, and that place is the Darvari Hermitage.
It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Icoana Church, on Schitul Darvari street, a short and narrow road, full of charm, endowed at every step with architectural jewels.
When you pass the old gate of the hermitage designed in neo-Byzantine style, you will be amazed by the simple and harmonious volume of the construction, the elegance of the decoration, the cells of the monks that surround the edifice. Suddenly you have the impression that you have arrived in the patriarchal garden of an isolated hermitage, somewhere in the countryside. Only the latest generation heaters remind you that you are in the middle of Bucharest.
Read, on B365.ro, the story with ups and downs of the Darvari Hermitage, the settlement that had periods of flourishing and deep monastic life, was a hermitage by nuns, then by monks from Mount Athos, which collapsed and was rebuilt, was closed during the communist period and was reborn after 1989.
