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Calvinist Cemetery

Cimitirul Reformat
Calvinist Cemetery
Cimitirul Reformat
Hints Elek (id.) sírja, Marosvásárhely
Hints Zoltán, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
graveyard
Current function:
graveyard
Church:
Calvinist
Address:
Strada Crizantemelor 4
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.5440389756, 24.5696558277
Google map:

History

Established in 1617 on the side of Somostető Hill, it is one of the oldest and most valuable cemetery in Transylvania. The mortuary in the centre was built in 1698 of Turkey oak, without iron nails. A small demonstration garden of the most valuable 17th-19th century gravestones in Latin and Hungarian was also created. The mayor Bernády György, the founder of modern Marosvásárhely, is buried here. Wooden memorial columns (kopjafa) has been erected over the graves of Bolyai Farkas and János, with signposts directing to it.

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