The Saint Visarion Church (Biserica Sfântul Visarion) is a Romanian Orthodox church near Roman Square in Bucharest. In fact, there are two adjacent churches, the old small church, and the larger new church.
The old church was built on the site of an earlier wooden church in 1797 and has since been dedicated to Saint Visarion II of Larissa, protector against the plague. At the same time it was also dedicated to Saint Charalambos and Saint Menas of Egypt. The church has a cross-shaped plan with a bell tower above the narthex.
The church was used until 1913, when the new church was inaugurated, and fell into disrepair since then. In 1964, the communist regime ordered its demolishion, but the parish priest managed to save a large part of the historic church. At the place of the demolished nave and altar, a stone cross has been placed.
Between 1910 and 1913, the new church was built which took over the dedications of the old church, with the addition of the Saints Constantine and Elena. The church has a cross-shaped plan and measures 230 square meters, with a length of 26 meters, and a width between 11 and 16.5 meters. The architectural styles are Byzantine Revival and Moldavian and the church has a large pantocrator dome and two smaller towers on the side.
