Curtea de Arges Cathedral

The Cathedral of Curtea de Arges is a Romanian Orthodox cathedral in Curtea de Arge?, Romania. It is located at the grounds of the Curtea de Arge? Monastery, and is dedicated to Dormition of the Mother of God. The constructing is the seat of the Archdiocese of Arge? and Muscel. The cathedral is faced with pale grey limestone, which changed into without problems chiselled then hardened on exposure. The interior is of brick, plastered and embellished with frescoes. Nearby at the grounds stands a big Moorish-style royal palace. The building resembles a totally large and problematic mausoleum, and changed into built within the Byzantine architectural style,

with Moorish arabesques. The cathedral sits upon a raised platform, 7 toes above the encircling grade, and encircled by a stone balustrade. In shape the structure is rectangular, with a many-sided annex on the returned. A dome rises inside the middle, fronted with the aid of two smaller twisting and leaning cupolas, even as a secondary dome, broader and loftier than the crucial one, springs from the annex. Each summit is crowned by means of an inverted pear-shaped stone, bearing a triple move, emblematic of the Trinity.