St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
Biserica Ortodoxă Sfântul Nicolae
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
Biserica Ortodoxă Sfântul Nicolae
Historical Hungarian county:
Brassó
GPS coordinates:
45.6356315357, 25.5815263154
History
The most spectacular architectural monument of Bolgárszeg. It is located in the park overlooking the main square of the district, the Porond (Piața Unirii, Anger). It faces east-west. In its gardens stand the building of the First Vlach School, the Museum of the Youth of Brassó and the statue of Deacon Coresi.
The first source for the Bolgárszeg Orthodox church is a letter of Pope Boniface IX to the Archbishop of Esztergom in 1399, in which he refers to the church of the "schismatics" of Brassó. According to excavations, the first stone church in Gothic style with a polygonal sanctuary was built on the site of the present building in 1495, during the reign of Vlad IV the Monk, Prince of Wallachia. However, this first church was either damaged or not spacious enough, because, according to the surviving documents of the parish, in 1518 its priest Petru, leading a large delegation, approached Prince Basarab V (Neagoe) of Wallachia with a request to build a stone church for them. Subsequently, the predecessor of the present church was built. The rulers of the Wallachia continued to support the church with their donations. In 1583, Voivode Petru Cercel enlarged it and had a porch built, and in 1595, Prince Aaron of Moldavia added a tower. An inscription in Old Slavonic above the entrance, dating from 1598, is a reminder of this phase of construction.
Its present-day appearance is defined by 18th-century Baroque alterations. The first side chapel was built between 1733 and 1738 and painted inside and out by Gheorghe Ranite from Wallachia in 1738. Its dean, Eustatie Vasilievici (Grid), visited Russia in 1743, where he received substantial sums of money from Empress Elizabeth and others for the benefit of his church in Brassó. From this, by 1751, the whole church had been restored, a clock tower and a second side chapel were added, also with wall paintings.
According to the writer Cserei Mihály, on Easter 1710, one of the icons of the church, depicting Christ crucified on the Cross, was sweating blood. Today the church is the centre of two parishes. In its cemetery lie the politicians Aurel Popovici and Nicolae Titulescu.
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