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Former Rusyn Greek Catholic Church, The Elevation of the Holy Cross Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Former Rusyn Greek Catholic Church, The Elevation of the Holy Cross Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Sighetu Marmatiei Biserica ucraineana
Andrei kokelburg, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Orthodox
Settlement:
Máramarossziget, Sighetu Marmației
Address:
Strada Bogdan Vodă
Historical Hungarian county:
Máramaros
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
47.9283899965, 23.8919513596
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History

The church was built by the Greek Catholics between 1791 and 1807. In 1948 the Greek Catholic denomination was banned, and the church was given to the Orthodox. In 1896 the church was artistically painted as a millennium gift from the Kingdom of Hungary. During the renovation between 1990 and 1997, the original painting of the church by Kádár Géza, a representative of the Nagybánya School of Painting, was destroyed. The old iconostasis was also lost and only one of the ornate stained glass windows remains.

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