The church, built by Stephan the Great in 1487, is the smallest of all his churches and monasteries and the only one destined to be a nun monastery, a ,,sanctuary for the soldiers wounded in battles”.

The admirable proportioned architecture represents a valuable model for the Moldavian medieval age, an edifice on tri-conic plane with nave tower, frames and gothic portals, with the facades under the cornice, decorated with ceramic friezes.

The original interior painting, of great artistic value, is remarkable by the stage of Complaint (nave), Saint Cross cavalcade (narthex), expression of the anti-Turkish feelings and actions, a refined composition with subtle colours in Byzantine tradition and votive painting. The external painting makes reference to the fragments from the Judgment’s day, accomplished after 1550. A round stone represents the table of Stefan cel Mare and the neighbouring bell “knows” how 10 spread the hail bringing clouds.