Stone Cross, Izvoarele Village

Good general condition. The cross is placed under a shelter specifically built for it’s protection.
  • Historic monument category B; code LMI CT-IV-m-B-02959
  • The year 1868 is inscribed on the stone
  • In Pârjoaia Forest, on the territory of the Roman-Byzantine fortification Sucidava, Izvoarele village, Lipnița commune.

A piece of stone, on which a Byzantine style cross is sculpted, inscribed 1868. Such Christian monuments used to be built as acts of piety and had a great social, moral and religious value for the Christian communities and the European regions of the Ottoman Empire, such as Dobrogea until 1877-1878

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