МАНАСТИРИ У ТЕМИШВАРСКОЈ ЕПАРХИЈИ – ЦЕНТРИ РЕЛИГИЈСКОГ И КУЛТУРНОГ ЖИВОТА СРБА У РУМУНИЈИ

Abstract

In the area of today’s Romania, in the Romanian part of Banat, an area that territorially belongs to the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Timisoara, in addition to 56 parish churches, there are five monasteries: Bezdin, St. George (on Brzava), Bazijaš, Zlatica and Kusić. Each of these monasteries has a rich history. The folklore tells us that some of these monasteries were founded in the 13th century, while we have documented evidence from the 16th century. In the rich history of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Timisoara, the Monasteries were and still are, the centres of the spiritual and cultural life of the Serbs in Romania. Many deserving bishops, metropolitans and patriarchs came from these monastic fraternities, who made a great contribution to the preservation of the religious and cultural identity of both the Serbian and Romanian people. Many deserving individuals and members of Serbian aristocratic families, contributed to the construction, renovation and beautification of these monasteries. These monasteries are places with rich iconostasis, frescoes, treasuries and libraries, where monastic and theological schools worked and more recently courses for singers and children’s religious camps, aiming to preserve the Orthodox faith and Serbian cultural identity in this area.Today, regular monastic and liturgical life takes place in four monasteries, and all monasteries are in constant spiritual and material renewal.