Plumbuita Monastery

Plumbuita Monastery is an Orthodox monastery for monks, dedicated to the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, located in Colentina district of Bucharest, on a small hill on the right bank of the Colentina River.

The name Plumbuita (approx. The Leaded) was given by locals, because for a long time the church has been covered with lead sheets. A legend says that the name comes from the fact that Matei Basarab, in need of cannon balls during a battle, ordered to melt the lead on the roof of the monastery.

Word source: http://surprising-romania.blogspot.com/2010/03/plumbuita-monastery.html

The semantron or semandron (Romanian: toacă) is a percussion instrument used in monasteries to summon the monastics to prayer or at the start of a procession.

cellar of the monastery

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