The Bezdin Monastery Arad

The Bezdin Monastery

It lays at 36 km  to the West from Arad and it is dedicated to the “Dormition of the mother of God” (28 August), one of the few Serbian orthodox monasteries that remained  in Romania, dating back to 1539. Formerly, the Holy Monastery was hidden in the lofty thick forest that surrounded it, but until today the forest had withdrawn toward the Mureş and it only occupies the territory between the barrier that appears behind the monastery and the bank of the river Mureş. 
The name of the monastery comes from the Bezdin creek, which forms a number of swamps with much thicket on its western side, creating at the same time a very picturesque landscape. The construction of the Holy Monastery Bezdin began in 1539 thanks to Iovan Iaksici from Nadlac, who also lived here subsequently.