Sinai Monastery
Description:
Sinai Monastery (1690-1695) was built at the expense of the king's squire, after a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Sinai Peninsula, from where the name of the monastery, and today's resort.
The Male Orthodox Monastery is of historical value and its museum houses the first Bible translated into Romanian.
In 1903, in the main temple of the monastery, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II baptized his nephew – the Romanian Prince Nicholas (son of Queen Mary).