Dosoftei House

Iaşi


Inside 17th-century Dosoftei House is a small literary museum holding some of the oldest printed books in Romanian, dating back several centuries. Dosoftei was Moldavia's metropolitan ruler between 1670 and 1686, and printed the first Romanian-language church liturgy in 1679. Unfortunately, there's little English text to explain things.


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