The Humor Monastery

Description:

Humor Monastery is a monastery in Suceava County. The painted Church of the monastery entered the UNESCO World Heritage List. The traveller, who visits for the first time the Holy Monasteries of Bucovina with exterior painting, can not believe his eyes. It seems like what he sees is not real. Former artist's mastery, lasting over many centuries, puts in a new light the past of this country and these places.

How can you get there? 

It is situated at a distance of 5-6 km from the town of Gura-Humorului, in the picturesque village Humor Monastery, Suceava County.

Why is it challenging? 

The architecture of the sacred monument at Humor is of a special interest. Here, for the first time in the construction of churches in Moldova, the open porch and a new upstairs room called mysterious appear. From the porch, one can break into the narthex, and, further, in the tomb chamber and the nave. Towards east, the church ends with a circular apse of the altar, separated from the nave by a veil of very old, exceptional wood sculpture.

Humor Monastery together with  Voronet, Moldovita, Arbore and Suceava, form the five religious places everywhere, inside and outside with Byzantine frescoes, which are distinguishable from all other churches of their kind in the Orthodox world. The exterior fresco of the Humor, painted by Thomas the Painter in 1535, open the range of other churches with exterior painting.