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The monastery is located in the Codri area, on the bank of the Cogâlnic River. Hincu Monastery was built on the site of a monastic skete in 1678 by the great stolnic Mihail Hincu, at the wish of one of his daughters, who joined the monks; her name was Paraskeva. Until the 17th century, the skete was called Viadica. Legend has it that Hincu, needing a larger army to remove the ruler Gheorghe Duca from the throne, received help from his relative, the serdar Apostol Durac, and then from the clucer Constantin of Soroca, to whom he promised his daughter's hand. However, when the wedding day came, she refused to marry her father's ally, fleeing the family home and hiding in a burrow. Mihalcea Hincu's daughter spent some time in the cave, until she was found by hunters who were searching for her. The girl refused to leave the cave. Then her father, the stolnic Mihalcea Hincu, came to her and asked her to come out of the cave. The daughter agreed, but only on condition that she would come out only after hearing the bells of a church. Thus, Mihalcea Hincu ordered a church to be built, where his daughter later lived out her entire life. After the Tatar invasion of Moldova, the church and the buildings around it were set on fire and destroyed, so the skete was completely destroyed. After these misfortunes, the nuns were forced to leave the skete. In 1784, the abbot of the monastery, hegumen Varlaam II, built several cells for the monks and a wooden church. In September 1949, Hincu Monastery was closed, and in 1992, after 43 years, Hincu Monastery resumed its activity.