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26/02/201204/03/2012Valentin Mandache

Garage doorway of a "fairy castle" style architecture house dating from the late 1930s, Icoanei area, Bucharest (Case de Epoca - Historic Houses of Romania)

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The typical Maramures style wooden gates of the priest’s house in the village of Breb (Romanian for beaver). #maramuresgates #woodengates #gates #breb #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Monumental Szekler gates in the village of Acatari/ Akosfalva, Mures county, Transylvania. #woodengates #szeklergates #ákosfalva #transylvania #ethnography #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

The portal of the 1717 built Surdesti wooden church in Maramures. It looks modernist nearly in its design, a testimony of the high level of artistry of the local 17h and 18th c old master woodcarvers. On the pediment one can see the outline of a pseudo-Wallachian ornate keel arch, which comes form the Moldavian Gothic, influent in that region, which used to be the home of the founders of the Principality of Moldavia from over the mountains. #surdesti #woodenchurch #portal #wallachian #moldavian #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Naves, seen towards the altar iconostasis, of the 17th and 18th c wooden churches (Greek-Catholic and Orthodox) churches of the Romanian communities of Maramures. Photos from the recent cultural toir of Maramures, Oradea and NW Transylvania. #woodenchurch #nave #naos #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Snaps of the façade of Palace Stern in Oradea/ Nagyvarad, Crisana/ Partium, built in 1905 in the Hungarian National-Romantic style of the Art Nouveau (I would call it Neo-Hungarian), and designed by the arch. Marcel Komor and Dezso Jakab, the ones also present in the famous Art Nouveau creations of Targu Mures/ Marosvasarhely in Transylvania. #artnouveau #hungariannationalromantism #oradea #nagyvárad #palatulstern #sternpalace #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache #1900s

A most interesting chandelier in the nave of the 17th c built Rogoz wooden church in Lapus Country/ Maramures. Atop of it is a double bird, signifying the duality of the God: the equilibrium between the good and evil forces of the cosmos, canceling each other and thus insuring the stability of the universe. That is Manichaeism, which is still very present in Romanian peasant beliefs, and comes from the current of Bogomilism, a dualism offshoot of Christianity, with origins in Persia that was powerful in the 10th c First Bulgarian Empire, which was also encompassing back then the whole of what is now Romania and half of Hungary. This chandelier with its double bird is the best Manichaean representation I ever encountered so far on the territory of Romania. #dualism #manichaeism #bogomilism #chandelier #doublebird #woodenchurch #rogoz #taralapusului #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

A most remarkable chandelier, adorning the nave of Bogdan Voda wooden church in Cuhea, Maramures (built in the first half of the 18th c). It shows three stages of divinity charged birds: doves on the lower level, nightingales on the mid one, and third swallows, who have the ability to fly vertically and thus go reaching the heavens. The style of the chandelier is nothing I know, not Gothic, neither Renaissance or Baroque, not even ethnographic Romanian. It is a completely original creation. The birds evoke the Franciscan influence among the local Romanian Greek-Catholics, alas this particular church is now militantly Orthodox due to the communist take over of Romania and their favouritism of the Orthodox (exactly like in soviet Russia and Ukraine, when the Orthodox church destroyed their Greek-Catholic co-ethnics with the help of the communists). #chandelier #woodenchurch #bogdanvoda #cuhea #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Chandelier in the nave of Rozavlea wooden church (built in 1717), Maramures. It is dated 1826, gifted by one Tomsha Ierina, as is written in the donor cartouche. #rozavlea #chandelier #woodenchurch #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

The chandelier in the nave of the 1700 built Poienile Izei wooden church, Maramures. #chandelier #woodenchurch #poienileizei #woodenchurch #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

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