Protestant Theological Institute
Protestant Theological Institute
Original function:
seminary
Current function:
seminary
Address:
Bocskai (Avram Iancu) tér 13
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
GPS coordinates:
46.772794556, 23.5954370441
History
In the 17th century, the first Reformed church outside the town walls stood on the site of the building. It was probably built around 1672 on the foundations of an earlier chapel. On 16 December 1690, the Tatar raiders coming from the direction of Kajántó burnt down Külső Magyar Street, including the church. Construction of the new church began in 1695 on a plot of land further from the town wall, on the site of the present two-tower church.
The abandoned plot was bought from the Calvinists by Pataki István on the condition that it would revert to the Church after his and his wife's death. He first turned it into a garden and then built an inn under the name of Three Lilies. In 1781 Mrs Pataki died and the land reverted to the church with the inn. However, the inn soon became one of the town's notorious drinking places.
The relocation of the Reformed theology from Nagyenyed to Kolozsvár had been on the agenda since the 1870s. The competition for the new theology building was won in January 1894 by the architect Feszty Gyula from Budapest. The building was inaugurated in September 1895, with the opening ceremony taking place on 2-3 November in the presence of Prime Minister Bánffy Dezső and Minister of Religion and Public Education Wlassics Gyula.
Under the agreement with the Ministry, the theologians were also considered students of the University of Kolozsvár and could take certain courses at its various faculties. The new building housed not only theologians, but also Reformed students of the humanities departments of the university.
Within its walls, renowned Transylvanian bishops, scholars, writers and editors studied, many of whom lived here for decades: the Bible translator Kecskemét István, the historian Pokoly József and Révész Imre, the philosopher Ravasz László, Bartók György, Makkai Sándor and Tavaszy Sábdor, etc.
The new Education Act, which came into force in 1948, gave the Protestant churches in Transylvania a choice: merge the Reformed and Unitarian theological academies or become secondary schools. The five Protestant bishops (Vásárhelyi János, Arday Aladár, Argay György, Kiss Elek and Friedrich Müller) decided in favour of unification.
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