Tantareanu Ecaterina

The ruins of the church from Baldovineşti, having the present shape since the beginning of the 19th century, are known as having belonged to a monastery. This information was then used in various papers, including Marele Dicţionar Geografic al României. More realistic and supported by a series of arguments is the possibility that this church belonged to an ex-lordly church. In the area was localized a village now disappeared (Tutani), while in the documents from the end of the 17th century, which nowadays are in the archive of the Comana Monastery, which owned the village Baldovineşti at that time, there is no reference to a monastic place of worship situated on its estate, as well as the hall church typology, dogmatically inadequate for a church of a monastery. The rectangular elongated plan having an apse in its eastern part and a bell tower on the narthex and a small square porch, the monumental and the decorative features lead to the idea that the monument was built at the end of the 17th century or the beginning of the 18th century. The dating is supported by other two similar monuments: the church from Vădeni-Gorj and that of the ex Dideşti Convent, situated in its vicinity.