Since their very foundation, monasteries have been true centres of piety and faith promotion. This is the most important thing, for the role of a monastery is to raise monasticism through culture and to put it in the service of the Church and people, to continue monastic life in prayer and fast, and to take care of the most oppressed and powerless. This makes monastery a centre of spiritual culture and Christian education.
The monastery of nuns of the Holy Great-Martyr George (or, the Monastery of Suruceni) is an oasis of ancestral faith, historically attested in 1785.
A place of prayer, silence, commemoration, good order and monastic living, the Holy Monastery of Suruceni is a place where one wants to come back again and again, to reveal new aspects of Christian experience and thinking…
Location: About 12 km west off Chisinau, near the village of Suruceni, Ialoveni raion, on the slope of a forested hill, surrounded by vineyards and orchards, near the bank of Suruci rivulet.
Holy Relics: a particle from the relics of St. Antipa of Calapodesti, granted in 1999 by the Transfiguration Monastery of Valaam (Russia).
The monastery also piously preserves a shrine with 55 particles of holy Relics and a particle of the Holy Cross on which Lord Jesus Christ was crucified
Icons: Two highly revered icons are preserved in the monastery: the Lord blessing with the Gospel and the Theotokos with Infant Christ “of Suruceni”.
