Mosaic on a former village shop, Bălăbănești
A mosaic panel on the wall of a former village shop in Bălăbănești, a commune seat in the Criuleni district of central Moldova, about 24 km east of Chișinău, near the Dniester. Facade mosaics of this kind — on village shops, canteens or houses of culture — were one of the common forms of Soviet monumental art across the towns and villages of the Moldovan SSR, alongside the decorated bus stops. The cooperative shop was often the most prominent public building in a village, and the smalt on the wall gave it the air of a small, bright store. Bălăbănești, a village founded in 1825 by peasant families and documented as far back as 1616, has over 2,000 inhabitants and, in its south-east, a 5-hectare dendrological park that is a landscape-architecture monument. The panel's author, year and exact subject are undocumented.
- Track
- Central Moldova (Codru)
- Neighborhood
- Bălăbănești, Criuleni district
- Building
- Fost magazin sătesc, Bălăbănești, r. Criuleni