Maglavit Monastery

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.^[1] The monastery was closed in the communist period and opened after 1989.^[2] In 2019 the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth happened at the Monastery with over 4,000 young people.^[3]

Maglavit Monastery

Maglavit Monastery
Location within Romania
Monastery information
Order	nuns
Established	14 September 1935
People
Important associated figures	Petrache Lupu
Site
Location	Maglavit, Dolj County, Romania
Coordinates	44°01′56″N 23°03′56″E
Public access	yes

See also

• Petrache Lupu