Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Wooden Church at Ieud

From Dragomiresti we drove on, past Bogvan... and turned off the main road to Ieud and its wooden churches.
Local color department: while the older structures are pretty
drab, the newer homes and businesses are definitely not...








On the road to Ieud










The church and cemetery at Ieud; these churches are very
similar to the stave churches so famous in Norway









Interior: a man noticed us gawking from outside the
cemetery, produced the key to the church, and let us
in to look around
















Altar












Priestly vestments




Main chamber










In the cemetery, ripe plums in the trees; ah, memories of
the recipe for plum torte we got from Greg Patent and the
tortes which Vicki made every autumn in Missoula;
locally, the plums go into a potent moonshine brandy












The church and the nice man who let us in
(we left 10 lei in the offering plate)

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