Church St. Constantine and St. Helena
Iglesia de San Constantino y Santa Elena
Iglesia de San Constantino y Santa Elena
LocationEl Hatillo, Greater Caracas
Country Venezuela
DenominationRomanian Orthodox Church,
Eastern Orthodoxy
Websitehttp://www.icontip.com/8.html
History
StatusChurch
Founded1999 (1999)
Founder(s)Teoctist Arăpașu
Architecture
Functional statusActive
StyleGothic/Carpathian vernacular
Specifications
Height38 m (125 ft) Bell tower
MaterialsWood

Church of St. Constantine and St. Helena, located in El Hatillo at the south-east of Caracas. It was donated by the Orthodox Church of Venezuela and the Government of Romania to the Orthodox community living in the capital of Venezuela. The land for its construction was donated by the Mayor. There are only 15 religious temples of its kind in the world and only two of them are outside Romania.[1][2] It was built by craftsmen from the Maramureș region in Transylvania, it was assembled without nails or metal objects in the structure and it is adorned with religious neo-Byzantine paintings. The bell tower rises more than 30 meters. All the pieces of wood for ceilings and walls, were brought from Romania, according sacred traditions to avoid similarities with the hardware and martyrdoms of the crucifixion.[3]

It was inaugurated in 1999 and took part in the act Teoctist Arăpașu, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church at that time. It was decorated by Titiana Nitu Popa and Mihaela Profiriu. The structure is intended to be a replica of the wooden church of Șurdești, the highest in Romania.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural (2005). "Lo Construido (PDF)". Catalogo del Patrimonio Cultural Venezolano 2004–2005. Municipio El Hatillo. Caracas: Ministerio de la Cultura. ISBN 978-980-6448-21-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 15, 2007. Retrieved 2006-12-15. (in Spanish)
  2. ↑ Rusé Martín Galano (March 2006). "El Hatillo y Ávila Mágica". Variedades. pp. 58–61. (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ www.eluniversal.com http://www.eluniversal.com/1997/05/02/cul_art_02312A. Retrieved 17 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.