Bus-shelter mosaic, Țigănești
A roadside bus shelter with a mosaic in Țigănești, a village in Strășeni district attested since 1420. Its name may derive from „țiglă” (roof tile): the locals were potters and brickmakers who kept more than 60 kilns. In the northern part of the village, in a wooded valley by the Ichel river, stands Țigănești Monastery (“Dormition of the Mother of God”), founded around 1725 by free peasants who hid in the Codru forest from Tatar raids. Nothing is recorded about the shelter's mosaic: neither author, year, nor subject is documented, and the photographs in the Mosaics of Moldova inventory (photo Nadejda Argint) are not under a free licence, so the panel cannot be described from images. The shelter belongs to Moldova's tradition of rural mosaic bus stops, built and decorated in the 1970s–80s by local, usually anonymous craftspeople.
- Neighborhood
- Țigănești, r. Strășeni