Road of access to monastery to be restored in southern Moldova

Chisinau, 16 February /MOLDPRES/ - The contract for the works of construction of the road of access to the Chistoleni Monastery of the Sadaclia village, southern Basarabeasca district, was signed on 15 February and the works are to start next week.    

"The signing of this contract is an important event for us, but especially for many parishioners who, in order to come to the monastery, have to cover a pretty difficult way both in summer, in intense head or rain, and in winter, when this road becomes impracticable,” the director of the South Regional Development Agency (ADR Sud), Maria Culesov, has said.      

"This will be a big relief for Christians who have been coming to pray for their salvation for years. I think that, if this road is rehabilitated and modernized, more honest-minded people from the settlement, as well as tourists will come to the monastery,” the father confessor of the Chistoleni Monastery, Filaret, has said.   

According to ADR Sud, they estimate that the reconstruction of the road of access to the Chistoleni Monastery will facilitate tourists’ access to this object of local and national interest, contributing to the enhancing of the zone’s attractiveness and its inclusion into the international tourist routes.   

The value of the contract signed is of about nine million lei and the period of carrying out the works is of seven months. This year, over 6.6 million lei will be earmarked from the National Regional Development Fund for the project’s implementation.  

The Chistoleni Monastery is one of the oldest holy dwellings from southern Moldova. It is situated at a distance of 90 km far from Chisinau and six km far from the Sadaclia village. The monastery was founded by Metropolitan of Bessarabia, Most Right Reverend Gurie Grosu, in 1932. In different periods, the monastery was jail for military and political prisoners, farm, hospital, warehouse, etc. In the spring of 1997, the holy dwelling returned to its initial purpose of monastery of nuns, called Chistoleni Monastery.