Köpeczi House, House of the Polish Ecclesia
Köpeczi House, House of the Polish Ecclesia
Original function:
parish
chapel
Address:
Strada Memorandumului 17
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
GPS coordinates:
46.7694877942, 23.5869699439
History
The most puritanical Polish followers of Protestantism, after being driven from their homeland, tried to settle in Transylvania. In 1661, about seven hundred of them managed to settle in Kolozsvár thanks to a letter of protection from Prince Kemény János. They acquired this house in 1680 and set up a prayer room within its walls, but it was also the pastor's residence. Their religious leader was Lachovius András. Many of the members of the congregation died in one of the plague epidemics of the time, and the young people who remained integrated into the Hungarian population. The Lachovius, for example, later took the name Lászlóczky. When the Unitarians were given the opportunity to build their own church (replacing the one on Main Square, which had been taken away in 1716) by a decree of Emperor Joseph II in 1781, the remnants of the Polish community sold the house in 1784 and donated the proceeds to the construction of a church for the Hungarian brethren.
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