Hangu

Hangu lies in the upper Bistrița valley beneath the mountains of the Eastern Carpathians. Its name was long applied to a wider stretch of the valley and to a monastery in these wooded uplands. In 1458 Stephen the Great confirmed the monastery of Neamț's possession of the house at Hangu. Prince Miron Barnovschi rebuilt its church in 1627; in 1715 Prince Nicolae Mavrocordat placed the monastery under the Patriarchate of Alexandria.