Putna Monastery was founded by Stephen the Great, who built it and dedicated it to the Virgin Mary. Groundbreaking was on July 10, 1466, and Metropolitan Teoctist consecrated it on September 3, 1470, three years later. The article names no architect, and says the long-held attribution to a Greek architect named Theodor has been disproven. The infobox lists the style as Moldavian and the materials as stone and brick.
The ground plan follows a typical 15th- and 16th-century Moldavian church, but the building has many 17th-century architectural and decorative features. Vasile Lupu and his successors largely rebuilt the present church between 1653 and 1662. The article gives no dimensions.
It is a Romanian Orthodox monastery. Stephen's tomb is a pilgrimage site, and the monastery is the starting point of the Via Transilvanica trail.
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