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Cârţa Monastery is a former Cistercian (Benedictine) monastery in the Ţara Făgăraşului region in southern Transylvania in Romania, currently a Lutheran Evangelical church belonging to the local Saxon community. The monastery was founded in 1202-1206 by monks from Igriș abbey- Carta village, Sibiu county, Transylvania, Romania