The Restoration of the Probota Monastery

The General Conference of UNESCO adopted the "Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage" in 1972. The Convention defined and drew up a list of sites of such exceptional interest and value that their protection is the responsibility of all humanity. 

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One hundred and fifty-three countries signed the Convention pledging to conserve the sites within their borders. Altogether there are 754 sites on the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List. These sites bear the testimony of past civilisations, serve as outstanding examples of cultural monuments and protect landscapes of the greatest beauty.

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A group of seven churches and monasteries in northern Moldavia were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1993. The monastery of Probota was included among them as number 397. All the churches belonging to this homogeneous group were built within fifty years of one another. Between the 1480’s and the 1530’s Stephen the Great and his sons erected them. All were painted on the outside between the 1530’s and the 1550’s. This practice began a new aesthetic. Probota is among the Painted Churches of Northern Moldavia.