Fifteen km east of Fălticeni, on the way to Probota, is the village of Dolheştii Mari. The village belonged to boyar Sendrea in 1395, as the first document that mentions its existence specifies. In the 1510s the ownership of the village was transferred to the monastery. At the west end of the simple white church is a bell tower above the entrance hall, but this is a later addition. The church is the oldest existing church in Moldavia that was founded by a nobleman. It was built as the private chapel of the boyar Sendrea, in the same compound as his feudal court. The church belongs to an archaic type, with features taken from provincial Gothic architecture. It has a rectangular ground plan, with a polygonal five-sided east apse. The vault of the chancel is not the usual half-dome, but the triangular panels are a continuation of the polygonal walls. Besides the chancel in the east apse, there are two other rooms, the naos and the pronaos, and an entrance hall with a flight of steps that is of a later date. The characteristic feature of the church is the presence of two tall niches with pointed arches on each longitudinal wall. In the pronaos, these lateral niches were used for the tombs of the founder's family. Only the tombstone of Maria Sendrea, the sister of Stephen the Great, is still legible.What make the church of Dolheştii Mari unique, are the blank whitewashed walls that are broken with colourful painting in only two places, both in the pronaos. One is the western niche of the south wall, and the other is the icon of St. Parasceva, the patron saint of the church, painted on a lunette above the doorway that leads to the naos. Any Orthodox church should be fully painted, according to a pre-established iconographic programme.