At about 12 km away from Chisinau, near the village of Suruceni, on the slope of a forested hill, surrounded by vineyards and orchards, near the bank of Suruci rivulet, is the Holy Great-Martyr George monastery of nuns, or Suruceni Monastery. It is considered that the Monastery was founded in 1785.
Chronicles relate that the land on which the monastery was build was donated by the landlord Casian Suruceanu. Hieromonk Iosif, who came from Montenegro, was supported by a group of Suruceni dwellers to cut the woods on the hill slope and build the wooden church of St. George. The church construction was finished by 1794.