Humor Monastery

Humor Monastery placed in Manastirea Humorului, approximately 5 km north of the city of Gura Humorului, Romania. It is a monastery for nuns devoted to the Dormition of Virgin Mary, or Theotokos. It was built in 1530 with the aid of Voievod Petru Rares and his chancellor Teodor Bubuiog. The monastery became built over the foundation of a previous monastery that dated from round 1415. The Humor monastery changed into closed in 1786 and became now not reopened till 1990.

The church has been inscribed via UNESCO on its listing of World Heritage Sites, as one of the Painted church buildings of Moldavia. The master painter chargeable for Humor's frescoes, which had been painted in 1535, is one Toma of Suceava. The topics of the frescoes at Humor consist of the Siege of Constantinople and the Last Judgment, commonplace on the outside of the painted monasteries of Bucovina, however additionally the Hymn to the Virgin stimulated by means of the poem of Patriarch Sergius of Constantinople relating to the surprising intervention of the Theotokos in saving the town from Persian conquest in 626.