Church of St. Constantine and Helena (Caracas)

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| name = Church St. Constantine and St. Helena

| fullname = Iglesia de San Constantino y Santa Elena

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| location = El Hatillo, Greater Caracas

| country = {{VEN}}

| denomination = Romanian Orthodox Church,
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| website = http://www.icontip.com/8.html

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| founded date = {{start date|1999}}

| founder = Teoctist Arăpașu

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| style = Gothic/Carpathian vernacular

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| materials = Wood

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Church of St. Constantine and St. Helena, located in El Hatillo at the south-east of Caracas. It was donated by the Orthodox Church of Venezuela and the Government of Romania to the Orthodox community living in the capital of Venezuela. The land for its construction was donated by the Mayor. There are only 15 religious temples of its kind in the world and only two of them are outside Romania.{{cite book|author=Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural |title=Catalogo del Patrimonio Cultural Venezolano 2004–2005. Municipio El Hatillo |year=2005 |publisher=Ministerio de la Cultura |location=Caracas |isbn=978-980-6448-21-6 |url=http://www.ipc.gov.ve/censo/cat_miranda/cat_miranda_hatillo.html |access-date=2006-12-15 |chapter=Lo Construido (PDF) |chapter-url=http://www.ipc.gov.ve/censo/cat_miranda/4_Lo%20Construido_El%20Hatillo.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515080719/http://www.ipc.gov.ve/censo/cat_miranda/cat_miranda_hatillo.html |archive-date=May 15, 2007 }} {{in lang|es}}{{cite news |author=Rusé Martín Galano |title=El Hatillo y Ávila Mágica |publisher=Variedades |pages=58–61 |date=March 2006}} {{in lang|es}} It was built by craftsmen from the Maramureș region in Transylvania, it was assembled without nails or metal objects in the structure and it is adorned with religious neo-Byzantine paintings. The bell tower rises more than 30 meters. All the pieces of wood for ceilings and walls, were brought from Romania.{{cite book|author=Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural |title=Catalogo del Patrimonio Cultural Venezolano 2004–2005. Municipio El Hatillo |year=2005 |publisher=Ministerio de la Cultura |location=Caracas |isbn=978-980-6448-21-6 |url=http://www.ipc.gov.ve/censo/cat_miranda/cat_miranda_hatillo.html |access-date=2006-12-15 |chapter=Lo Construido (PDF) |chapter-url=http://www.ipc.gov.ve/censo/cat_miranda/4_Lo%20Construido_El%20Hatillo.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515080719/http://www.ipc.gov.ve/censo/cat_miranda/cat_miranda_hatillo.html |archive-date=May 15, 2007 }} {{in lang|es}}{{cite news |author=Rusé Martín Galano |title=El Hatillo y Ávila Mágica |publisher=Variedades |pages=58–61 |date=March 2006}} {{in lang|es}}

It was inaugurated in 1999 and took part in the act Teoctist Arăpașu, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church at that time. It was decorated by Titiana Nitu Popa and Mihaela Profiriu. The structure is intended to be a replica of the wooden church of Șurdești, the highest in Romania.