The construction of the Putna church began after the victory achieved by Stephen the Great at the Chilia Fortress, and its consecration, after the victory against the Tatars, on August 20, 1470, from Lipinti, near the Dniester. Putna was a hearth of hermitage long before the foundation of Ștefan the Great, this fact being ascertained following the research carried out between 1980 and 1982.
The construction of the church is trilobed in shape, with thick walls of stone boulders and brick, on a foundation of stone boulders of large proportions for that time, being 37 meters long, 11 meters wide and 33 meters high at the spire. The space is divided into the altar, nave, pit, porch and closed porch. Here is the tomb of Stephen the Great and Saint covered with a white marble canopy, with an inscription inlaid on the slab showing that the valiant ruler is the founder and builder of the holy place, together with his wife Maria, the daughter of Radu Voivod.
On the grave of Stephen the Great is the silver urn placed on the occasion of the celebration in 1871. On the northern side of the pit are the graves of Stephen's sons, Bogdan, who died on July 27, 1479, and Petru, who died in November 1480. In the pronaos, on the side on the southern side, there is the tomb of Maria, the daughter of Ștefan Voievod, on the northern side Mrs. Maria, the wife of Petru Voievod, and Ștefan Voievod, the grandson of Petru Voievod. In the porch, on the southern side, there is the tomb of the Metropolitan of Moldavia Iacob Putneanul, and on the northern side the tomb of the Metropolitan of Suceava Teoctist.
Source: www.manastiriortodoxe.ro