You might remember in the pre-World War I days, most of the royalty of Europe seemed intent on married other royal family members of the region. As I recall, that spread the trait of hemophilia around at the time. What's more, the continent had some interesting combinations of countries.
That brings us to Queen Marie of Romania. She was the grand-daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, and apparently someone thought it would be a nice idea to have her old church represented in her new home city. So this was opened in 1922. Other members of her family turned up as well.
The building survived World War II and the Communist regime, although it's fair to say it didn't exactly prosper. It just went past 100 years of age, which is the oldest Anglican church to remain open in that part of the world.
Services are held in English each Sunday, and we were lucky enough to hear a small concert there during our visit. The building is in a nice neighborhood of Bucharest, although it is odd to see a British church surrounded by Communist-style apartments.
Since you've gotten this far, maybe you'd like to see what a Christmas service there is like:
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