The Churches of Moldavia are Byzantine churches with painted exterior walls. They were built between ca. 1487 and 1532, as a protective barrier against the Muslim Ottoman conquerors from the East.The following individual churches are part of this site:- Church of the Beheading of St John the Baptist, Arbore- Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of the former Monastery of Humor - Church of the Annunciation of the Monastery of Moldovita - Church of the Holy Rood, Patrauti - Church of St Nichol