Монастырь Кушелэука

The Cușelăuca Monastery is an Orthodox nunnery, established in 1786 on a slope near the Ciorna river. The monastery was founded by Maria Tocănos from the village of Cotiujeni, who took the monastic name Mitrodora. The monastery is open on the eastern side, and from the other sides is surrounded by forests. In the monastery there are two churches - ''The Assumption of the Virgin Mary'' and ''Holy Emperors Constantine and Helena''. Distance from Chișinău: 126 km Location: com. Cușelăuca, Șoldănești district Monastery church: ''The Assumption of the Virgin Mary'' Year of establishment: 1786 Abbess: Hegumen Agneșa (Izbaș) The church ''The Assumption of the Virgin Mary'' was built in 1841 in the Cușelăuca monastery. Its ktitors were Archimandrite Nicandru, the confessor of the Archbishop's House in Chișinău and his sister, Schema-nun Irina, who in 1841 was the abbess of the monastery. In the church architecture, one can feel the influence of Russian neoclassicism. During the interwar period, the church experienced a period of prosperity. In 1960, the church was closed. Many nuns remained to work in the collective farm.