Humour Monastery

Situated in a beautiful setting, 5 km north of the town of Gura Humorului, Humor church was built in 1530 by High Chancellor Teodor Bubuiog
at the behest of Voivode Petru Rares, on the site of a previous monastery built before 1415.
The monastery was closed in 1786 and was not re-established until 1991. It is now a small convent, served by nuns - the villagers use another church, on a nearby hillock.
The church, devoted to the Holy Virgin, is smaller than other churches of the painted monasteries and does not have any cupolas.
Otherwise, it preserves the same traditional three-cusped plan proper to most other painted monasteries.
Humor is protected by a wooden stockade rather than a stone rampart, and lacks the characteristic spire - indicating that it was founded by a boyar, not the ruler.
The belfry with a belvedere was erected in 1641, under Vasile Lupu's rule.