A Winding Destiny

This small church on the Dambovita's shore has many strange features.
First, its shape is unusual for the Orthodox churches, because it has no towers.
Then, it's position: it stood at first on the left bank of the Dambovita. Due to the river's channeling, it now stands on the right bank.
As the ground went down after the works, it now is one meter lower than the street's level, so instead of climbing stairs to get in, you have to go down.
It is the only Orthodox church in the world that has the inscription above the entrance written in Greek and Arab instead of Slavonic.
Last, but the most important: this is not the original church, the one built in the 17th century. That one was destroyed in 1987 during Ceausescu's regime. As it was so small, one afternoon was enough for the bull-dozers to tear it down. It was rebuilt in 1992 on the same spot and using the parts that had been preserved from the old church: the entrance with the inscription, the columns, the window-frames and the icons.