Noul Neamţ
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Noul Neamţ (Russian: Novo-Nyametskyi, English: New Neamţ) is an all-male monastery located in Chiţcani, near Tighina, geographically in Basarabia but controlled by Transnistria. It is also known as the Kitskani Monastery and it is the biggest religious complex in Transnistria.
The name signifies the status of the monastery as a successor to the original Neamţ Monastery in Romania (Moldavia).
The monastery was founded in 1861, when several monks from the Neamţ monastery in Romania left and founded Noul-Neamţ in Chiţcani. The founding of the new monastery was a protest against the measures taked in Romania to confiscate monastery estates and forbid the usage of Slavonic language in worship[1]
On 16 May 1962 Soviet authorities closed the monastery, which became a hospital.
In 1989 the church of the monastery was reopened, and in 1991 was opened here a school for orthodox priests, in Romanian language[2].
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