Unitarian Church
Biserica Unitariană
Unitarian Church
Biserica Unitariană
Address:
Strada Bolyai 11 (egykori Gecse Dániel utca)
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
GPS coordinates:
46.5432509633, 24.5646793829
History
The Transylvanian country assembly held in Torda in 1557 was the first in the world to declare religious freedom. After that, the Unitarian denomination became so strong that more than half of the town's population belonged to it. They had a church on the site, which was destroyed at the turn of the 17th century during the raids of the imperial general Basta and the Voivode Mihai of Wallachia (to whom the Romanians erected a statue in the town). The number of believers later dwindled, and by the early 19th century there was no church in the town.
It was not until 1849 that the Unitarian church bought the land on which it built a house in 1869. It had a prayer house and the King Matthias, or as it was later known the Lion Inn. The church was built next to this house. The construction of the Unitarian Church on Bolyai Square began with the laying of the foundation stone on 28 June 1929. The design was drawn by Patrovits Kálmán and the construction was supervised by master builder Bustya Lajos. The solemn consecration took place in 1930 in the presence of Bishop Dr. Boros György. The construction of the neo-Gothic church was financed partly by donations from the faithful of Marosvásárhely, and to a greater extent by the sale of plots of land and the sale of the Marosszentkirály estate. The organ was donated by Bustya János.
Previously, the adjoining prayer house, built in 1869-70, served as a meeting place for the faithful.
By the end of the 20th century, the Unitarian Parish of Marosvásárhely had grown significantly, as Unitarians moved from the surrounding villages to the city. On 21 November 1999, a new church was built on Kövesdomb. The foundation stone was laid by Bishop Dr. Szabó Árpád and parish warden Szabó László. The Unitarian Church of Kövesdomb was consecrated on 2 December 2006.
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