In a world often overrun by noise and haste, the Bucium Monastery distinguishes itself as an oasis of quietness and deep spirituality, as a gate to heavens, through which the priests and believers’ prayers and supplications ascend directly to God.

Built in 1853 as a metokion of the Romanian Skete Prodromou from the Athos Mountain, it became a skete itself in 1918, and much later, in 1991, it was acknowledged as a monastery.

The church is placed in the middle of the monastery; being built according to the teachings of The Apostles, it is cross-shaped: the sides of the pews are circular and the Altar is round on the outside. Supported by two arcades, the arches appear rectangular in length and semicircular in height. The central arch ends in two borders: an octagonal one and a circular one.

The interior of the church, as a whole, presents elegance, simplicity and justice in proportions.

Within the precincts of the monastery, there lies the monks’ cemetery.

As the name of this place is closely related to the history of the Wonderworking Icon of The Mother Of God, named Prodromita (which now is to be found in the Holy Mountain of Athos, in The Romanian Skete Prodromou), we can joyfully say that going towards the Monastery of Bucium and noticing the charging landscape with leaving fertile trees, one receives in his soul the feeling that this monastery is a blessed garden of the Holy Mother Of God.

The community (koinobion) counts 16 inhabitants.

Beside the intense liturgical life, the monks and friars undertake several activities, most of them dealing with agriculture.

The foundation of a painting workshop - at the initiative of the Abbot, Protosynkelos Ioachim Ceausu - brings forth a new and welcome activity in this monastery.