Grecescu Church is located in the west side of the city Drobeta Turnu Severin, near the Grecescu Hospital. Named after its founders, the church has as Patron, Saint John the Baptizer.

The church is founded in 1868 by the landowners Ioan si Ioana Grecescu, that founded also the hospital nearby. For the realization of the project, Carol I hired the Capital’s Architect, Enderle, with the purpose of building the church after the royal church in Curtea de Arges.

The church has no holy relics and from 1885 had the status of cathedral until it began the construction of the new city’s cathedral.
The Church is built in a cross shape, after the plans of the Monastery in Curtea de Arges, but enlarged. At the entrance there is a vestibule followed by the body (naos), the transept and the altar, separated by arches. Also, the chuch has two opened steeples and two concrete spires.

Over the time, the church had several repair and consolidation works. In 1917 the German occupation troops took the copper sheet from the roof and in 1944 the roof and the coating was damaged by the bombings of the Anglo-American aviation and each time the propper repairments were done. The roof that can be seen today was made in 1920.

After the earthquake in 1977 repairment and consolidation works were made .
The value and the beauty of this religious sanctuary are given also by the interior paintings (neoclassic style), creation of Gheorghe Tătărescu, in 1872.
Grecescu Church was consacrated in 1875 and in 1885 became the Ortodox Cathedral of Drobeta Turnu Severin.