Maglavit Monastery

Maglavit Monastery
Maglavit Monastery
Location within Romania
Monastery information
Ordernuns
Established14 September 1935
People
Important associated figuresPetrache Lupu
Site
LocationMaglavit, Dolj County, Romania
Coordinates44°01′56″N 23°03′56″E / 44.03222°N 23.06556°E / 44.03222; 23.06556
Public accessyes

Maglavit Monastery is an Orthodox monastery in Romania, located in Maglavit commune in Dolj County. It is built at the place where the shepherd Petrache Lupu would have seen God. The place was called "La buturug". Petrache Lupu was a deaf and mute shepherd that convinced hundreds of thousands of pilgrims that God appeared to him. The monastery was closed in the communist period and opened after 1989. In 2019 the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth happened at the Monastery with over 4,000 young people.