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The Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral, dedicated to Saints Constantine and Helena, stands on Metropolitan Hill in central Bucharest. Prince Constantin Șerban had it built as a monastery church, consecrated in 1658; it became the seat of the metropolitans in 1668 and is now the cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Patriarch. Its interior frescoes date from 1923.
Stavropoleos Monastery is a small convent of Orthodox nuns in Bucharest's Old Town; its church was built in 1724 by the Greek archimandrite Ioannikios in the Brâncovenesc style, with carved stone columns and painted façades. An early 20th-century building by Ion Mincu holds a library and icons, and the nuns' choir sings Byzantine chant.
The Choral Temple is a synagogue in the Moorish Revival style on Sfânta Vineri Street, built in 1864–1866 to designs by Enderle and Freiwald after the Leopoldstadt Temple in Vienna. Devastated by the Iron Guard in January 1941 and restored after the war, it still holds services; its main hall reopened in 2015 after refurbishment.
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