# Japca Monastery

- **Type:** Experience
- **Language:** en
- **Offered by:** The moldova.travel catalogue
- **Region:** Northern Moldova
- **Category:** Religious
- **Duration:** 0.8 h
- **Suitable for:** Couples, SoloTravellers, Groups
- **Lodging:** Available
- **Coordinates:** 47.982980, 28.699785
- **Tags:** Culture, Cultură, Monasteries, Routes of life, Rutele vieții, Культура, Мănăstiri, Монастыри, Пути жизни
- **Last updated:** 2026-10-08T11:02:43+03:00
- **Canonical page:** https://demo.moldova.travel/en/experiences/222-japca-monastery
- **This document:** https://demo.moldova.travel/en/experiences/222-japca-monastery.md

## Description

The Monastery of the Ascension stands in Japca village, Florești district, on the bank of the Dniester. It grew out of a rock hermitage founded between the 15th and 16th centuries, and in 1818 Metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni raised the skete to a monastery. The summer church was rebuilt between 1912 and 1916 in an eclectic style with three altars, a rarity among the region's monasteries. Japca is the only monastery in Moldova that stayed open throughout the Soviet era, thanks to Abbess Serafima's appeals in Moscow.

## Photos

![Japca Monastery](https://demo.moldova.travel/mt-media/catalogue/manastirea-japca/media/manastirea-japca.jpg)

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