The wooden church in Ersig

The foundation stone was laid on the 2th of July 1939 by the dean Isaia Suru, the deanery manager of Caransebes. The works started immediately and the construction went so fast that the Church was finished in October, 1939. The Hermitage is located at 1550 meters upon the sea level, being built from carved wood beams. It has 9 meters length and 8 meters wide and the dome has a height of 20 meters.

The natural beauty of the place determined some people with good faith to build between 1945-1946, a wood church like those from Maramures. The initiative of building a hermitage belongs to Mr. Alexandru Papp, engineer and director of the Company “Plants and Domains of Resita”. The project was created by the architect Gheorghe Raureanu in 1943. The dome is fixed by a metal framework in order to resist the strong winds and frequent storms characteristic to the place. 

In March 1908, the Romanians from these places decided to establish a fund for the construction of their church in Anina, however, it was not until September 21, 1930 that the foundation stone of this foundation was laid. The church is built in neo-Byzantine style. The first consecration of the church took place on November 12, 1939, and the second took place on May 21, 2009. text source: episcopiacaransebesului.ro photo source: Biserica „Sfinții Împărați Constantin și Elena” Anina Centru 

A historical monument of national importance, the church was built between 1872-1873 in neo-Gothic style, on the site of another Roman Catholic church built in 1787. Along with the celebration of 100 years of existence of Steierdorf, the church was also consecrated on June 8, 1873.  A year later, the three bells made in the royal foundry of the craftsman Ignatz Hilzer in Wiener Neustadt were consecrated and baptized. text source: turism.cjcs.ro photo source: Google Maps - Agenția 360 România

On September 22, 2013, on the plateau at the border of the towns of Bozovici, Eftimie Murgu (Rudaria) and Bania, the Monastery of Țării Almajului was built, due to the desire of some believers from Almaj to have a monastic hearth and a social center in their midst. The monastery is located in a special natural setting, right in the center of the Almaju Valley. Thus, the mountains that surround it leave the impression of a natural fortress far from the hustle and bustle of the contemporary world, with only the Nera river, the sacred water of the Almajenes, passing through here. text source: manastireataraalmajului.ro photo source: Google Maps - Agenția 360 România

The initiative to build a monastic settlement on the outskirts of the village of Putna, on the Almaju Valley, belonged to adjutant platoon leader Luca Zăvoianu, son of the village, who contributed by donating the necessary land. The foundation stone of the monastery was laid on August 6, 1996. In the autumn of 1996, the construction of the monastery began and the foundation of a building containing 19 cells, the chapel, the refectory and the kitchen was poured. In March 1997, hieromonk Sava Gana arrived, later named abbot, who together with other monks managed the hermitage. Thus, through their contribution and the people of good faith, the body of cells, the summer chapel, the winter chapel, as well as an agro-zootechnical sector near the hermitage were built. In 1999, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church elevated the hermitage to the rank of a monastery. Since then, it bears the name "Transfiguration of the Savior Jesus Christ". text source:  episcopiacaransebesului.ro photo source: Google Maps - Agenția 360 România

There are many legends about the past of the "All Saints Sunday" Pitra Scrisă Monastery. One of them tells about how, when the decision was made to build a railway on the Caransebeş-Orşova route, according to the plan, at the opening of a tunnel in a rock near the town of Armeniş, there was the icon of the Holy Trinity. Following the discovery, the believers in these places were dissatisfied with the continuation of the tunnel in the same direction, knowing that the icon has an important meaning for the whole area. Thus, the leader of the works, Engineer Mihlheisen, was put in a position to change the calculations of the plan, diverting the exit of the tunnel towards Armeniş, a few meters west of the icon. text source photo source

The monastery bears the patron saint "Cuvioasa Parascheva", its foundation stone being laid on October 14, 1994. In the fall of the same year, the first sisters came and started collecting financial and material funds for the construction of the monastery. The church is built in the Moldavian style, and in 1995 the construction of a building that includes the cells of the nuns also began. photo source: Google Maps - Agenția 360 România text source: turism.cjcs.ro

The archaeological excavations carried out on the Danube Gorge also revealed some objects with Christian symbols dating from the IV-V centuries, thus proving the existence of an early Christian life in these places. Prompted by these discoveries, Archpriest Ion Văran of Oraviţa and the mayor of Sicheviţa commune, Gheorghe Birtea, proposed to the Diocesan Council of the Diocese of Caransebeș the establishment of a hermitage on the banks of the Danube. As a recognition of the efforts of the inhabitants of the monastic settlement from Gornea, at the proposal of His Holiness Lucian, the Bishop of Caransebês, within the Metropolitan Synod of the Metropolis of Banat, which took place on November 18, 2010, under the presidency of His Holiness Father Metropolitan Nicolae of Banat, the hermitage of was raised to the rank of a monastery. text source: episcopiacaransebesului.ro photo source: Google Maps - Agenția 360 România