The architecture of the monastery church is entirely in the Brâncoveanu style, a style that emerged at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century in Wallachia. On the outside, the stone decoration of the door and window frames, but especially the carved pilasters and the openwork stone panels in the church porch give a special beauty to this monument of Christian art. The brick belt set in dentils, the shingle roof and the perfect proportions show us a monument worthy of the era of Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu. The church tower is octagonal on the outside and cylindrical on the inside. The interior of the church, in the shape of a cross, is divided into altar, nave, narthex and porch, as is found in most churches built during the prince's time. The painting in the church porch is new and includes scenes from the Old Testament and the New Testament: The Last Judgment, heaven and hell, etc. The entrance from the porch to the narthex is through an oak door, set in a carved stone frame, and above the door is the inscription carved into a stone slab.

The Brâncoveanu Monastery, the last great bastion of Orthodoxy in the Făgăraș Land, built between 1696 and 1698, was destroyed in 1785. After the monastery was demolished, the Brâncoveanu palace in Sâmbăta de Sus, located 10 km away from the monastery, was temporarily inhabited by descendants of the Brâncoveanu family. They owned the domain until the agrarian reform of 1922, when the Ministry of Domains handed over the Brâncoveanu domain, along with the ruins and the entire monastery premises in Sâmbăta de Sus, to the Metropolitanate of Sibiu. During the more than 140 years of abandonment in ruins since the date of destruction, several attempts to restore the monastery are known, all of which remained without any result due to the power of the time that was hostile to Orthodoxy and Romanianism in Transylvania. The honor of becoming the second founder of the Brâncoveanu Monastery in Sâmbăta de Sus went to Metropolitan Dr. Nicolae Bălan, who began the restoration of the church in 1926. The works were carried out under the supervision of the Historical Monuments Commission, led by architects Georges Cristinel, Petre Dumitrescu and Friedrich Buertnes, who sought to restore the original form of the monument. The consecration was carried out in 1946, after the war. Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan kept the old painting inside the church

Located on the valley of the Sâmbăta River, at the foot of the Făgăraş Mountains, at an altitude of over 600 m, the Brâncoveanu Monastery is renowned as a place of meditation, comfort and spiritual strengthening for believers and visitors who pray or stop by this holy place. The Brâncoveanu Boyars Foundation From Sâmbăta De Sus The Romanian people, who were born Christian, have through this monastery, as well as through the other 500 Orthodox monasteries and hermitages in Romania, the strongest bridge connecting Romanians on both sides of the Carpathians. The history of the Brâncoveanu Monastery – Sâmbăta de Sus begins in the mid-17th century. In 1654, the village and estate of Sâmbăta de Sus came under the control of Preda Brâncoveanu, the grandfather of Constantin Brâncoveanu, a local boyar from the southern Carpathians, who built a small wooden church in the valley of the Sâmbăta River. On its site, around 1686, the first founder, Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714, built a second stone monastery. At the end of the 17th century, Transylvania had barely escaped the attempts of the Calvinist princes to Calvinize it. However, attacks continued on the main point of resistance, the Orthodox faith of the Romanians, in effect aiming at their denationalization. In order to strengthen and save Romanian Orthodoxy from the new danger of Catholicization, which arose when Transylvania came under Habsburg rule (1683), Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu founded an Orthodox monastery at Sâmbăta de Sus, to bear witness over time to the unity of race and faith of the Romanians on both sides of the Carpathians.

An important role until the destruction of the monastery in 1785 was played by the abbots (hegumens) Ioan (originally from Pojorta) and Visarion the hieromonk, who after the destruction retired to the village of Sâmbăta de Sus, bringing – and a special contribution to the erection of the church in the village. The religious persecutions of the Austro-Hungarian rule claimed thousands of victims among the Romanians. The change of the ancestral faith of the Romanians would have easily led to the loss of their national identity. The Orthodox Romanians tried to resist, being helped primarily by their churches and monasteries. Because of this, the ordeal of the destruction of the monasteries and churches in Transylvania began. Over 250 monasteries were destroyed by the cannons and the army of the Viennese general Bukow sent by the Court of Vienna to annihilate the Orthodox resistance. For a long time, the Austro-Hungarian administration did not touch the Brâncoveanu Monastery, founded by Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu, due to the prince's connections at the Court of Vienna. After the beheading of Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu by the Turks in 1714, the Court of Vienna first took into account the heiress of the estate, his wife, Mrs. Marica, and then the fact that a grandson of the prince was still alive. In 1785, taking advantage of the fact that after 1772, the Sâmbăta de Sus estate had temporarily left the Brâncoveanu family's possession (until 1802) due to the non-payment of a debt, which led to the pawning of the estate to the merchant Dumitru Marcu, the court in Vienna, at the request of the Catholic administration, sent General Preiss, who demolished the Brâncoveanu monastery. The cells were completely destroyed, and the church was reduced to a state of ruin

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