Chisinau City Hall building
At the end of the 19th century, the current mayor of the city, Karol Schmidt, initiated the construction of a new headquarters for the Duma of the city (town hall) on the place occupied by the fire station. The design was entrusted to the then city architect Mitrofan Elladi. The...
Catargi Mansion
On this site once stood an older house, which came into the possession of the lord of the dormitory Iordache Catargi (1797-1871), who built the building between 1853-1854. The architect of the building is believed to be Henrik Filip Lonsky, of Austrian origin. The facades have an eclectic architecture based...
Presidental Palace of the Republic of Moldova
It was built between 1984–1987, the authors of the project being the architects Iuri Tumanian, A. Zalțman and V. Iavorski. Designed from the beginning as an administrative building, in order to house the Supreme Soviet of the Moldovan SSR, this building was prepared in the early 90s of the twentieth...
Parliament of the Republic of Moldova
Built between 1976 and 1979, the building has the curious shape of an “open book”. The authors were the architects Alexandru Cerdanțev and Grigore Bosenco. Designed from the beginning as an administrative building to house the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the MSSR, this building was prepared in...
National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History
Its history begins in 1889, when the Zemstva of Bessarabia organized the first Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, which was also the basis for the foundation of the museum institution. Being the oldest museum in the Republic of Moldova, its name has often been changed over the years. Today it holds...
Hertza House
Not far from the Parliament building, along Stefan the Great Boulevard, there is a house that looks like a cake – it is the city villa of Titular Counselor Vladimir Herz, built in 1903, supposedly designed by the Austrian architect Heinrich Lonsky in the style of the Viennese Baroque. The...
Organ Hall
The building of the Organ Hall has a unique beauty. Initially, the Organ Hall building was designed as the City Bank. In 1902 the Municipal Council of Chisinau launched a competition of architectural projects with a prize of 1,500 rubles, which was a relatively large amount in those days. The...
Mimi’s Mansion
The urban villa of Alexandru Mimi is an architectural monument of national significance, entered in the Register of Monuments of History and Culture of the municipality of Chisinau, located in the historic center, on Bucharest Street, 106 A. In 1870 Alexandru Mimi, the father of the future governor of Bessarabia...
The former gymnasium for girls founded by Princess N. Dadiani
This building was built in 1901, after a project by the architect Alexandru Bernardazzi and commissioned by Princess Natalia Dadiani. Until then, there was an old real estate property in this place, which the state councilor Mitrofan Purișkevici sold to the Council of the girls’ gymnasium. Dadiani founded and ran...
The Râșcanu-Derojinski urban mansion
The Râșcanu-Derojinski urban mansion at 62 Bucharest Street was one of the most beautiful monuments of national significance, which for decades ennobled the historic centre of the capital. Built in the 1870s to the design of the city architect Alexander Bernardazzi, the manor house belonged to the noblewoman Catherine Rascanu-Derozhinskaya....
Kligman House
Architectural monument of national significance, entered in the Register of Monuments of History and Culture of the municipality of Chisinau at the initiative of the Academy of Sciences. In the middle of the 19th century, the wife of Major-General Maria Markiva built a one-storey house on the corner of the...
Teodor Sabau’s House
The archaeological site called “Ruins of the Church Museum – Episcopal House – Teodor Sabau’s House” will be included in the Register of Historical Monuments of Local Significance in Chisinau municipality. In addition to the fact that the object will be classified as a historical monument, the draft decision also...
Ruins of the Church Museum/Old Cathedral
The Church Museum was founded legal on April 4, 1904, with the establishment of the Church Historical-Archaeological Society in Chisinau, through the efforts of the distinguished Basarabian scholar Ioan Halippa. According to the by-laws, the Society’s aim was the multilateral study of the local Church’s past, starting with the dawn...
The building of the former gymnasium for girls
The building of the former gymnasium for girls, founded by Baroness Iulia von Heyking (Gheiking), is a monument of architecture of national significance, located at 85 Alexei Mateevici Street in Chisinau, which is currently in an advanced state of deterioration. The building was built in 1886 as the residence of...
Casso House
The first documentary information on the property dates back to 1863, when it belonged to the college secretary Aristotle Londis. In 1867, this property was bought by the wife of the retired porcupine Yulia Vichentievna Yanuchyevsky, who in 1869 built a house with a basement, the author of the project...
“Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu” Municipal Library Building
The history of the building that houses today the Municipal Library “Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu” in Chisinau begins in 1835, when the municipality distributed a plot of land for individual construction to the family of college counselor Ivan Monastarsky, a clerk at the Spiritual Consistory of Bessarabia. The house was designed in...
Zemstvо Museum
The Zemstvо Museum, included in the Register of Architectural Monuments under the name “Building of the former orphanage, later the headquarters of the Zemstva Guberniale of Bessarabia”, is a historical building located in Chisinau, at 103 Alexei Shciusev Street. It is a monument of architecture and history of national significance,...
Former Seat of the County Council
The building, where the Union of Bessarabia with Romania was voted in 1918, is today the seat of the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts. Today, it is here that the young generation of artists is trained: they perform theatre, learn directing and rehearse, sometimes until midnight. More than...
The former gymnasium for girls of the Bessarabian Zemstva
The private gymnasium for girls, which was to move its headquarters to this building, was founded in 1864 by Liubovi Beliugova. At one point, he passed into the management of the Bessarabian governmental Zemstva. In March 1880, Zemstva purchased a plot of land at the intersection of Gubernială and Podoliei...
Urban mansion of the Cheșco family
Let’s first tell about the biography of the Queen of Serbia – Natalia Cheșco-Obrenovic. Natalia was born on 15 May 1859 in Florence, the daughter of Petre Cheșco, a descendant of a branch of the Wassilko family, a Basarabian colonel in the Russian army, and Pulheria Sturdza, a member of...
Red Mill
The Red Mill was one of the first steam mills built in Chisinau. It was originally built of wood in the 1850s and 1860s and had a single floor. In 1884 it was rebuilt from stone, already with 3 levels. After being resold several times, in 1890 the mill became...
Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts
The Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts is a public institution of higher education in Chisinau. It is the successor of the Chisinau State Conservatory, founded in 1940, and of the music education institutions that have been operating in Chisinau since 1919, when the “Unirea” Conservatory was founded on...
Moldova State University
The University was founded on 1 October 1946. Initially, it had 320 students enrolled in 5 faculties: Physics and Mathematics, Geology and Pedology, History and Philology, Biology, Chemistry. There were 35 teachers working in the 12 departments. Macarie Radu and Mihail Pavlov were among the founders of the university. In...
The National Museum of Literature “Mihail Kogălniceanu”
The National Museum of Literature “Mihail Kogălniceanu” was created in the autumn of 1965 under the aegis of the Writers’ Union of Moldova. The museum’s collection consists of over 100 thousand exhibits, including books, art objects, documents. It was originally called the Republican Museum of Literature of the MSSR. After...
National Library
The National Library of the Republic of Moldova, based in Chisinau, is the main state library responsible for the preservation, valorisation and safeguarding of the written cultural heritage. The library operates in accordance with UNESCO’s guiding principles for this type of library and is part of the European Digital Library....
Government House
The building that currently houses the Government of the Republic of Moldova was built between 1960-1965, according to the project of the architect S. Fridlin. It is located in the Grand National Assembly Square in Chisinau, on the site of the former headquarters of the Metropolitan Church and the Diocesan...
The Circus of Chisinau
The Circus of Chisinau was built in 1981, the architects – S. Shoihet and A. Kiricenko. For a long time, the Chisinau Circus held the fourth place in the world and the first place in the USSR in terms of convenience and capacity (1900 seats for spectators and 100 –...
Shapiro’s House
Shapiro’s report house is a monument of architecture of national significance, entered in the Register of monuments of history and culture (no. 114) of Chisinau and in the Register of monuments of the Republic of Moldova protected by the state (no. 68). It is located in the Historic Center, on...
The Chisinau „Aleksandr Pushkin” House-Museum
It is a museum, that is also a monument of architecture of national importance, included in the Register of monuments of history and culture of the municipality of Chisinau. This building is the one where the young Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin (he was 21 years old) lived for several months...
House of Architect Gh.Cupcea
More modest compared to his other works, the single-storey building on A. Mateevich, 62 was built at the intersection of the 19th and 20th centuries (at that time the name of the street was “Sadovaya”), which to this day, due to favourable circumstances, has not only not collapsed, but has...
Cathedral of Christ’s Nativity, Bell Tower,Triumphal Arch
The cathedral was built between 1830-1836. The idea of building such an important object of worship belonged to Metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni. But the foundation stone was laid only 9 years after his death. The architect Avraam Melnikov, chosen by competition, used the late neoclassical style (empiric style) for the building,...
Church of the Mother of God (Măzărache Church,1752)
The oldest building (including ecclesiastical) that has survived to date on the territory of present-day Chisinau, and the only one that preserves medieval Moldovan architecture. The Măzărache Church is documented in 1752 (year of consecration). It is popularly named after its founder – the nobleman, merchant of Chisinau Vasile Măzărache....
Church of Saints Constantine and Helen (1777)
In the past, it was the church of the cemetery of the village of Visterniceni, later annexed to the city and became the Riscani district of the capital. The church bears its present name since 1834, after the request of the nobleman Iorgu Râșcanu to change the name of the...
The Armenian Apostolical Church, The Holy Mother of God (1803–1804)
After the annexation of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire in 1812, the Armenian Archbishop (1809-1828) of Moldo-Vlachia, Grigor Zakarian, had to move to Chișinău, his title being limited to that of Archbishop of the Armenians of Bessarabia, although the Armenians across the Prut continued to subordinate themselves to him. The...
Monastery ,,Saint Great Martyr Teodor Tiron” (Ciuflea) (1854-1858)
It is the only convent of nuns on the territory of Chisinau. Its cathedral is a white stone temple, with nine gilded domes, and was built at the request of brothers Teodor (1796-1854) and Anastasie (1801-1870) Ciufli, after the project of architect Luca Zaușchevici. It is popularly known as “Ciuflea...
Church of St. Great Martyr Panteleimon (1891)
Founded by two brothers of Greek origin – Ivan and Victor Sinadino, honorary citizens of Chisinau, sons of the former mayor Pantelion Sinadino, who led the town hall twice – in 1837-1839 and 1840-1842. The construction of the church lasted for for 5 years, according to the neo-Byzantine project of...
Saint Theodora of Sihla Church (1895)
The chapel of the Bessarabian Zemstva’s high school for girls was built in 1895, with Teodor Krupensky and his daughter Euphrosinia, who was married to Prince Viazemski of Russia, as its founders. The architect of the Byzantine-style project was Alexander Bernardazzi. The consecration of the chapel did not take place...
Saint George the Great Church (1819)
From historical sources we learn that the construction of the Church “Saint George” began in 1814, in the historic center of Chisinau, with the blessing of Metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni. The works started under the guidance of the priest Gheorghe, helped by his Bulgarian compatriots. One of the architects of the...
Saint Hierarch Nicholas Church (1901)
The holy place was given the name “Saint Hierarch Nicholas” in memory of the first founder – the felcher Nicholas Ivanov. The construction of the church began in 1901, according to the project of the city architect Vladimir Tiganko. After the death of the main founder, Catherine’s wife sells the...
Church All Saints Sunday (1819- 1930)
It is believed that this very church in the town has been built the longest – just over 100 years! It is also the church that is most often visited by parishioners – it is located at the entrance to the Central (also called Armenian) Cemetery. The present appearance of...
The Roman-Catholic Cathedral of Divine Providence (1840)
The Roman Catholic community in Chisinau, composed almost exclusively of Polish people, was formed in the late 1830s. Ten years later, with their own financial contributions, the community builts a holy place, in 1840. The church project was approved in St Petersburg. The architect and sculptor Joseph I. Charlemand played...
Holy Trinity Church (1852-1862, or 1869)
The “Holy Trinity” Church was founded and consecrated by Archbishop Antonie Shocotov, on the territory of the former cemetery of the village of Muncesti (nowadays Botanica sector). It is a church built according to one of the model projects, which were widespread in Bessarabia at that time and used in...
Chabad Lubavitch Central Synagogue (Synagogue of the glassmakers)
This Synagogue was built in 1896-1898 by the architect Tsalel Gershevich Ginger. For a long time there was an unspoken rule in Chisinau: for every 500 Jews in the city there must be one synagogue. In 1964 the city authorities ordered the closure of all synagogues except the Glaziers’ Synagogue,...
Jewish Hospital
Architectural monument of national significance, included in the Register of monuments of history and culture of the municipality of Chisinau, compiled by the Academy of Sciences. The Jewish Hospital was founded before 1812 and received official status in 1843. Since the 70s of the 19th century, projects for the buildings...
Central Synagogue of Chisinau
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE OF CHISINAU its founded in 1886. “Sennaya” synagogue, located in the historical part of Chisinau, is one of the oldest functioning synagogues in the capital and the Republic of Moldova as a whole. Its role in the formation of the Jewish community in the region is exceptional. In...
