St. Gheorghe the New Church was raised in 1705-1706 on the site where a smaller church had existed. Near the church there used to be the oldest and largest inn in Bucharest: St. Gheorghe Inn. The actual church, raised by Constantin Brâncoveanu, was surrounded by palaces which were meant for patriarchs and priests, as well as by the buildings of the former inn. Both the inn and the church burnt during the fire of 1847. The inn perished, while the church could be restored. The best part of the church is the verandah with 12 columns and bearing typical decorations for Brancoveanu style. Constantin Brancoveanu was decapitated in Constantinople in 1714, together with his four sons and their bodies were thrown into the sea. A few friends found the body of the voyevode and buried it and his wife, Lady Maria, brought it in 1720 to Bucharest and buried it in the church he had raised. She covered his tomb with a stone with no inscription, so that the Turks could not find who was buried there, but she also put a votive light made of silver, on which, among the floral decorations, the craftsman that made it wrote: “This candle put in St. Gheorghe the New Church lights the place where Voyevode Constantin Brancoveanu Basarab lies and it was made by Lady Maria which desired to rest for her eternal sleep here also. July 12, year 7228” (year 7228 from the beginning of the world means year 1720 AD). Only in 1914 the inscription was discovered and people could find out that the voyevode lies in this church.