About 30 photographs of Moldovan monasteries can be admired at the National Museum of Archeology and History of Moldova. The exhibition titled “Stone Monasteries of Bessarabia” staged by Dan Barcea was opened on the occasion of the International Day for Monuments and Sites, Info-Prim Neo reports. The photographed monasteries include “God's Birth Cathedral” in Butuceni village, “The Annunciation” in Saharna, “Raising of the Holy Cross” in Japca, “The Assumption of the Virgin” in Tipova, and others. Priest Severian Gheras, of the Maramures Church in Suceava, said a people is very rich when it has such monuments as they represent the past. “The people can build the future if they have past. Our parents and forerunners left these monuments to us so that we maintain them and promote their value,” he stated. Cultural adviser to the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia, priest Sergiu Aga said the initiative to exhibit photos of these monasteries is important as many people do not know about them. “Their antiquity points to the civilization and spiritual culture of this land,” he said. One of the visitors of the exhibition, Ecaterina Bologan said that such events make you relax, especially in the context of the many expressions of violence. She stated that the monasteries keep the memory of our predecessors. The exhibition is a project of the Golescu Brothers Institute for Relations with the Romanians Abroad. It is the fifth exhibit dedicated to the stone monasteries of Bessarabia. It will be open until May 4. Romanian filmmaker and photographer Dan Barcea settled in Austria. He graduated from the Vienna Academy of Film and Television. He made documentaries and movies in Romania, France, Italy, Japan, and the U.S. Currently, he cooperates with German and Austrian televisions. In 2006, he published the book “Eastern Romanity. Stone Monasteries in Bessarabia”, written in cooperation with Mihai Nicolae.