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St. Michael and Gabriel Archangels Orthodox Church

Biserica Sfinții Arhangheli Mihail și Gavriil
St. Michael and Gabriel Archangels Orthodox Church
Biserica Sfinții Arhangheli Mihail și Gavriil
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Orthodox
Settlement:
Medgyes, Mediaș
Address:
Strada Cloşca
Historical Hungarian county:
Nagy-Küküllő
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.161838077, 24.3552840446
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History

The Orthodox cathedral was built after the Romanian occupation in 1929-35 in the neo-Byzantine style. It was designed by George Plăcintaru Liteanu. The town's Orthodox inhabitants built their first wooden church in 1787, which was destroyed in 1849. In its place, a stone church was built in 1850 on the banks of the Muzsnai stream. In the 1920s, the Saxon magistrate prevented the new Orthodox church from being built on the main square, but as a compromise they donated the site of the present church to the Orthodox on the former wood market.

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