HIDDEN CHURCHES
A series about the churches that were "hidden" between big monumental blocks during the communist-socialist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.
During the communis-socialist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu it was common to either take the churches down completely, to hide them between big blocks, or to even move them on freshly built railways between bigger buildings, so nothing reminds of the churches' power or makes it look like religion even has power at all. Churches and monasteries used to be built big so that many people would fit. But that was also seemed too powerful to some, what was standing in contradiction to the communist-socialist party. The only recognized and allowed power during that time was the one of the state and nothing shall dim it's shine and legacy.
Courisous was that one special architect found a way to navigate those issues and addressed them by building railway transports and creating a way to lift the churches out of the ground and "drive" them by railway to another more hidden place. That way some of the old churches and monasteries were preserved till this day. And with it, the work of Eugeniu Iordăchescu (also called "Engineer of Heaven"*) as well.
*Article: Romania's 'Engineer Of Heaven' Dies Aged 89 (rferl.org) (refreshed on 2024.04.04)