Prislop Monastery is a Romanian monastery located near the village of Silvașu de Sus in Hunedoara County. The monastery church dates from the 16th century. In 1564 the monastery was built from scratch by Zamfira, the daughter of Moise Vodă from Wallachia.

County: Hunedoara
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Saint John of Prislop lived here in the 17th century. In the 18th century it was a Greek Catholic monastery. Until the 19th century it was almost deserted and administered by ordained priests. Bishop Demetriu Radu took care of the restoration of the monastery in 1901. On October 29, 1948, with the prohibition of the United Romanian Church, the Greek-Catholic priests were arrested and the place occupied by the Orthodox Church. On November 25, 1948, Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan transferred the monk Arsenie Boca from the Sâmbăta Monastery to Prislop, where he was also arrested two years later. The monastery was then rebuilt after 1975 as an Orthodox monastery with a community of nuns.