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The St. Mary Monastery
was built at about 1750 by the old people of the village Maioresti, district of Mures, using the wood of very old common oaks, it was decorated with a naiv painting done with a special paint on wood, by the village’s painters.

In 1934 the king Carol the 2nd changes the church’s location, moving it to the castle Pelisor-Sinaia. A few years earlier, in 1928, the first Patriarch of united Romania Miron, erects in a modest villa in Techirghiol, a shelter for priests.After the Second World War, the mighty figure of the Justinian Patriarch appears on the patriarchal chair, through everything he does for this shelter he will become the founder of the Holy Mary Monastery from Techirghiol.

In 1951 he will move the small wooden church from Pelisor to the priests’ shelter. The sculptor of the Patriarchate, Grigore Dumitrescu will now change it’s figure, by adding a church porch and two towers. The common oak beams, traditionally fixed with wood nails, surrounded with a spinned median girdle, provide a personal, full of authenticity air to the whole construction.

The monastery preserves its primary destination so the Leisure House provides those who want, but offer also a treatment base and rooms at a corresponding level to modern tourism, accordingly to the highest standards.