The oldest building in the area of Craiova that has been preserved is Cosuna Monastery and is included in the category of monumental religious buildings of Wallachia. But beside the church, its old buildings weren't kept until our times. Some were victims of robberies and fires caused by internal and external enemies, others were destroyed by natural calamities like flood of Jiu waters and many earthquakes.

The building date is mentioned in several different sources. A document indicates the date of December 3rd 1572. An old mapping states that Cosuna Monastery was built in 1483 (both historians Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu and Nicolae Iorga subscribe to that).
For the building of Cosuna Monastery was used stone (for foundation) and brick (for bottom and walls) of the Roman Encampment Pelendava. In terms of architecture, the church is built in a mountainous style (or Vlach; this style is characterized by synthesis of popular local elements and Byzantine ones).