Inauguration of the first Parish Museum in Bucharest
Romanian Orthodox Church
On February 2, 2010, on the occasion of the Great Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, at the Old Court Church in Bucharest, with the feasts of the Presentation and of St. Anthony the Great, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel consecrated the museum of this parish, which exhibits liturgical objects from the treasury of the oldest church in Romania’s Capital.
After the consecration service of the museum, which contains objects as old as the 17th century, donated by Martyr Ruler Constantin Brancoveanu, and others, dating back to the 18th century, donated by Ruler Nicolae Mavrocordat, the Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church explained that setting up a museum requires a lot of painstaking work, many expenses, exceptional expertise, and is maintained through responsibility. These objects on display, offered to the church, which are icons, chalices, crosses, epitaphs, are objects which are also commemorating those who offered them, the founders, the benefactors.
