The Mavrogheni Church (Biserica Mavrogheni) is a Romanian Orthodox church located next to Kiseleff Park in Bucharest. The church is dedicated to the Healing Spring (Izvorul Tămăduirii).
The Mavrogheni Church was built by Nicholas Mavrogheni, Prince of Wallachia, and his wife Maria, between 1786 and 1787. The church is dedicated to the Healing Spring (Izvorul Tămăduirii), a reference to a common Orthodox legend about the miracle of a blind man who was cured from his blindness after drinking water from a spring. Nicolas and Maria built the church with this dedication after their daughter had recovered from an incurable disease.
The church was initially a monastery linked to the Panagia Ekatontapiliani on the Greek island Paros, but since the secularization of monastic assets in 1863, it has operated as a parish church.
The church was restored in 1794 and again after an earthquake in 1838. At this time the dome above the narthex was removed and a portico was added. Further repairs took place in 1890 and 1902. In 1895, the Mavrogheni Municipal School (now the Ion Heliade Rădulescu Middle School) was built on the grounds of the church.
During the 1940 earthquake, the bell tower was destroyed and further damage was caused by the 1944 bombings, after which restorations took place. Further repairs were also needed after the 1977 earthquake. In 1997, a new Neo-Brâncovenesc style bell tower was added, which doubles as the entrance gate of the premises.
The church has a cross-shaped plan with apses that are semicircular on the inside, but rectangular on the outside. An octogonal tower rises above the nave and the portico features an arch resting on two columns with capitals decorated with floral motifs. Several prominent figures are buried around the church, including the academic and poet Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Princess Zoe Bagration, the Filipescu family, and Prince Mihai Suțu and his wife.
