Pantelimon

Where the name comes from

A place or district

The Pantelimon district and road, after the village that grew around St Panteleimon's monastery.

In 1735 Prince Grigore Ghica began, on the island of today's Pantelimon II lake, a monastery with a hospital for plague victims, dedicated to St Panteleimon. The hospital and the village that grew around it took their name from that dedication. The station is the eastern end of M1. At its opening some sources call it Antilopa, after the nearby shoe factory; others say the name was only informal.

How the name travelled

1. PantelimonBucharest metro station
2. the Pantelimon district and roaddocumented
3. the village of Pantelimon, which grew around the monasterydocumented
4. the St Panteleimon dedication of Grigore Ghica's foundation (1735)documented · 12 October 1735

Earlier names

• Antilopa the opening name, according to some sources

Antilopa was the nearby shoe factory.

Worth knowing

• The station has a single track; only some M1 trains run this far, the rest turn back at Republica.
• The Pantelimon depot lies about 200 m from the station.
• Metrorex gives the Republica–Pantelimon section as 0.68 km; other accounts give 1.4 km.