The Scaune Church (Biserica Scaune) is a Romanian Orthodox church, that is located near Colțea Hospital in Bucharest. The church is dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother God and to the Nativity of Mary.
It’s not known when the church was exactly built, but according to the inscription on its pisanie, a wooden church already existed in its place in 1611. The name of the church was derived from the surrounding district and refers to the wooden slabs on which butchers cut meat. The church was also known as the Butchers’ (Măcelarilor) or Soap Makers (Săpunarilor) Church.
According to the pisanie, the current church was completed in 1705 with money donated by a Bulgarian merchant. In 1843 it was restored and modified, and its outside was plastered and painted and the arches of the porch closed with masonry. Between 1910 and 1939 the church was abandoned and decayed. After the arrival of the priest Gheorghe Prejneanu, the church was restored with the support of the Historical Monuments Commission and put back in use in 1944. In 1947 the parish house was built and in 1954 the current spire was built of brick.
The church is built on a cross-shaped plan with a single dome and measures a length of 27.1 meters and a width of 12 meters. The portico has five narrow frontal arches and two arches on each side which are supported by a total of ten columns. The wooden entrance door, which is coated in tin, dates from 1795.
