Veverița Monastery · Mănăstirea Veverița
A monastery in the forest at Veverița, Ungheni · quiet, clean air, a long drive from Chișinău
The forest quiet and the church at Veverița · “quiet place for prayer”, per a review
Worth it if you are already heading toward Ungheni and want a quiet stop in the forest, not as a quick trip out of Chișinău: it is about 68 km in a straight line. Google shows it open 24 hours, but gives no phone and no website, so you cannot check service times in advance · one review describes arriving late to an empty place until a woman opened the door. Come expecting quiet and forest, not a developed tourist attraction: reviews call it beautiful and well kept, but apart from the restroom Google marks, the sources describe no amenities.
Veverița Monastery sits in the village of Veverița, Hîrcești commune, Ungheni district, about 68 km from central Chișinău in a straight line · per OpenStreetMap you reach it on the village access road. Google lists it as a place of worship, open 24 hours every day, with no phone number and no website. The reviews that describe the place say much the same thing: forest, clean air, quiet. “Quiet place for prayer,” one visitor writes · another says everything is “neat and very clean” and that the air is easy to breathe. One review quotes the act of establishment filed by the Hotin bishopric, with the foundation laid on 20 August 1923 in the grove called Veverița · that claim comes from the review, not from the monastery. If you arrive late, do not count on anyone being there: one visitor found the place empty until a woman opened the door. Google marks only that there is a restroom · on services, a shop or other facilities, neither Google nor the reviews say anything.
- Quiet for prayer, says a review
- Clean air · easy to breathe, per a review
- Clean and well kept, per a review
- Secluded, in the forest, per reviews
- The door opened even for late arrivals, per a review
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“Very secluded, but also beautiful monastery. We arrived late, so there was no one there, but a lady opened the door for us so we could enter the monastery. Worth a visit”
“Beautiful forest, fresh air and a pleasant monastery. A nice place.”
“Wow, here in these places it was really a very pleasant and very beautiful experience🤩 everything is so neat and very nice and clean🔝 the oxygen is very good and easy to breathe 🫡”
- About 68 km in a straight line from central Chișinău, in Ungheni district · not an evening outing
- No website and no phone on Google · service times cannot be checked in advance
- Google shows 24 hours, yet a review describes an empty place on a late arrival until someone opened the door
- The Google address is only “Veverița, Moldova” · better to navigate by coordinates