Architecture of Bălţi during the interwar period

This article is devoted to the most important architectural monuments erected in the town of Bălţi during the interwar period. Among the religious buildings, whose appearance is connected with the Bishop Vissarion Puiu, are the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, the Episcopal Cathedral of the Holy Emperors Constantine and Helen, the Church of St. Pious Paraskeva, as a replica of the famous church of the Curtea de Argeş monastery, the Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel and the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God at the Assumption Cemetery. In Pământeni district, the residence building of the bishop of the Hotin diocese was built in the western part of the town. Those valuable buildings, reflecting national architecture, have become landmarks of the town. New public and residential buildings are characterized by the “neo-Romanian”, modern, Art Deco, etc. Among the professionals who contributed to the architectural development of Bălţi in the interwar period were Etti-Rosa Spierer, the first woman architect from Bessarabia; the Bucharest architects Adrian Gabrielescu, Petre Dumitrescu, Nicolae (Nae) Mihăescu, Robert Mihăescu and Dumitru Ionescu-Berechet; the municipal architect Andrei Ivanov; architects P. Moroianu, C. Berechet and others.