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Annunciation (Former Greek Catholic) Orthodox Church, Small Cathedral

Catedrala Buna Vestire
Annunciation (Former Greek Catholic) Orthodox Church, Small Cathedral
Catedrala Buna Vestire
Marosvásárhely 3
Christo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Orthodox
Settlement:
Marosvásárhely, Târgu Mureș
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.5417406529, 24.5574325815
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History

The church, called the Small Cathedral, is a scale model of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. This is presumably what gave its name. It was built between 1926 and 1936. It was consecrated on 8 September 1936. In 1948, the Greek Catholic Church was banned by the Communist authorities, and the church was given to the Orthodox, and has not been returned to the Greek Catholics since.

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