Saint Sava Church

SAINT SAVA CHURCH On 12th April 372, Saint Sava from Buzău (334-372) was martyred by drowning in the waters of the Mousaios river (Buzău). In 374, the letter of Junius Soranus, governor of Scythia Minor (Dobrogea) to Saint Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea Cappadocia, written in ancient Greek (published in Analecta Bollandiana, Tomus XXXI, Brussels, 1912), mentions for the first time in writing the name of Mousaios (Buzău) and it attests for the first time the existence of Christianity in Romania in the area of Buzău and Constanța (Tomis). Saint Sava from Buzău together with Saint Andrew the Apostle and the various martyrs from the beginning of the 4th century from the Lower Danube, laid the foundation of the identity of the Romanian people through the Christianity practiced in Buzău and in Dobrogea. Started in 1993, at the initiative of priest Mihail Milea, the construction works of the Saint Sava Children's Cathedral of Buzău were completed in 2015. The consecration service of the prayer place took place on 11th October 2015. On 16th August 2020, the church it was re-consecrated by His Eminence Ciprian, Archbishop of Buzău and Vrancea, being integrated into a beautiful building project, the Holy Martyrs Brâncoveni Park.