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Sambata de Sus Monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery in Sambata de Sus , Bra?ov County , in the Transylvania region of Romania . Dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God , it's also called Brâncoveanu Monastery. There is evidence of skete monasticism being practiced within the place via the early 17th century. Sambata de Sus village and surrounding land entered into the Brâncoveanu own family's possession in 1654. Constantin Brancoveanu, Prince of Wallachia, built a stone and brick church in region of an older wooden one round 1696, with the monastery installed by 1701. Part of his motivation turned into to reinforce the Orthodox presence in the location and guard towards encroaching Catholicism, which had become a extra urgent issue after 1683 and the consolidation of Habsburg domination over Transylvania. Concurrent with the monastery's establishment, the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church changed into founded,

drawing numerous Transylvanian Orthodox below Papal authority. Brâncoveanu additionally established a faculty for secretaries, a workshop for fresco art work and a small printing press on the monastery site. Over the direction of the 18th century, there has been stress on the clergymen to accept union with Rome. In 1761, Adolf von Buccow, Governor of Transylvania, ordered the destruction of all Orthodox monasteries below his jurisdiction. Sâmb?ta de Sus became spared, likely following an intervention by the Brancoveanu circle of relatives. Its prestige grew, because it remained the simplest Orthodox monastery inside the Fagara? Country.