At five kilometers distance off the little
town Gura Humorului, in the picturesque village Humor, surrounded by old
trees and dewy fields, Humor Monastery is
set on a hill’s top in one of the most fascinating of the Suceava count.
The Church of the Humor Monastery is a famous foundation of the Middle
Ages.
Set in the exterior facade above the entrance, a votive inscription
carved in stone teaches us the church was founded in 1530 by a Moldavian
boyar named
Toader Bubuiog and his whife Anastasia, under the reign of Petru Rares.
In the vicinity, five hundred meters farther off, are the ruins of
another church, older than the Church of Humor Monastery, those ruins
belong to an
ancient church which was constructed during the reign of Alexander the
Kind (1400-1432).
For the first time was constructed here the open porch and "tainita" (a
hiding room); that room is placed upstairs and is overlapped above the
tombs room.
From the open porch there is the pronaos (narthex) and, after it, the
naos. On the eastern side the church construction is finished with the
circular
apse of the altar. The altar is separated form the naps by a beautiful
ancient iconostasis carved in wood.
The Church of the Humor Monastery was entirely painted al fresco as well
as Voronet, Moldovita, Sucevita, Arbore churches - all of them in
Moldavia. The
interior and the exterior walls have been adorned with traditional
Orthodox fresco-paintings in Byzantine style. The exterior walls covered
by a
delicate painting make those five churches unique throughout the
Orthodox world. The exterior fresco-paintings of the Humor Monastery's
Church were
painted in 1535 by Toma Zugravul. The entire painting has conserved the
original XVI th century character.
Into the church’s pronaos there are a series of images representing the
Synaxary (Calendar), the icon of the Assumption of the Mother of the
God,
the icon of the Achathist Hymn of the Virgin, the portraits of the great
hermits of Christianity and angels. On the vault of the tomb’s room are
painted the scenes of Holy Virgin's Life. On the walls of the naos were
painted mural images representing portraits of the saints and the cycle
of
Christ Passion and the Entombment; on the vault - Christ Panthocrator.
The votive portraits of the founders can be also seen on the walls of
the naos.
The altar with its sacred images completes this precious ensemble of
fresco-paintings. The apse's vault of the altar is reserved to the Holy
Virgin with her Son, Last Supper, saints, great hierarchs, according to
the Orthodox tradition.
Doubtless the most important things which attract the admiration and the
appreciation of the visitors, here to the Humor Church are the old
painting
exterior walls. The important religious themes are: The Acathist of the
Annunciation, The Iesei's Tree, and The Last Day of the Judgment. To the
bottom of the southern facade was painted the extraordinary scene of the
Constantinople’s Siege. That fresco represents a mirror of the
historical
events concerning the conquest of the capital of the Byzantine Empire in
1453 by the Ottoman army.
The all style of the sacred monument, but especially the fresco-painting
is strongly connected of salvation's idea of the people; people whom
look to the scenes
of the salvation's history and they feel the irresistible attraction of
the Christian's consummation.
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