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Former Minorite Church, Transfiguration Greek Catholic Church

Catedrala Greco-Catolică Schimbarea la Faţă
Former Minorite Church, Transfiguration Greek Catholic Church
Catedrala Greco-Catolică Schimbarea la Faţă
Schimbarea la Fata (Transfiguration) Cathedral, Cluj-Napoca
Cluj Napoca, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Greek Catholic
Settlement:
Kolozsvár, Cluj-Napoca
Address:
Bulevardul Eroilor 10
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.7694348788, 23.5926163715
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History

The Minorites arrived in the town in the 15th century and built a monastery and church on Farkas Street, from where they were driven out by the Protestants. They returned only in the mid-18th century. In 1766 they bought the Henter House, which is still the core of the monastery wing. The church and monastery were built between 1778 and 1779. Its tower collapsed in 1779 due to poor foundations and had to be rebuilt. The Minorites ceded it to the Greek Catholic Church in 1924, who used it as an episcopal cathedral from 1930. In 1948, it was forcibly taken from them and given to the Orthodox, from whom it was only recovered in 1998 after a long legal battle.

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