Baia Mare, Evangelical Church

GPS Coordinates:
47.66033 N, 23.58485 E

The evangelical church appeared in Baia Mare in the 16th century. Sylvester Erdõs János from Seini, a student at Wittenberg, brought the reformed breath. Followed by Kopácsi István, an evangelical priest, in 1547 he converted the whole city to the reformed religion.

From here the foundation of the Evangelical-Lutheran church in Baia Mare is calculated. In this community, the jobs were held in Hungarian, German and Slovak. As a result, half of the 2000 volumes in the library are in German, but there are also books in Slovak. The first wooden church was built in 1693 with the support of the Prince of Transylvania Apafi Mihály I. Demolished in 1766 by the Jesuits, the services were held for a period in private houses. Instead of the small church with a wooden tower, built in 1805, the current church was erected between 1911-1912.

Banks organ built in 1886, chandelier and ancillary altar 1901 are preserved from the old church. The altar was painted in 1903 by Jun. Iványi Grünwald Béla.

Contact:

0040-262-212-771

You can speak with us in:

Germain, Romanian, Hungarian

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