Church of St. Anthony the Old Court

The church is the oldest surviving temple in Bucharest. It was built in the middle of the 16th century during the reign of Wallachian hospodar Mircza Pastucha. Originally, the temple was part of the palace complex and for over two hundred years, until 1842, it was the coronation site of the Wallachian rulers.

The church is 25 m long and 8 m wide. It was built in a characteristic Serbian style, and its special feature is the facade arranged in white and red stripes. This is one of the few churches in Wallachia that uses buttresses, taken from Moldavian architecture. It is worth paying attention to the columns with bas-reliefs. The temple is also decorated with slightly elongated, neo-Gothic windows added in the 19th century.

Over the centuries, the church was destroyed several times as a result of fires and earthquakes. Formerly two entrances led to the temple - on the left for women and on the right for men.