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Calvinist Church

Biserica Reformata
Calvinist Church
Biserica Reformata
A nagykárolyi református templom.
Pataky Sandor, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Calvinist
Address:
Strada Tibles
Historical Hungarian county:
Szatmár
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
47.685057, 22.46023
Google map:

History

The Reformed (Calvinist) church was built between 1746 and 1752, rebuilt between 1792 and 1800. Its tower was built between 1793 and 1795. In the churchyard there is a statue of Károli Gáspár, the first translator of the Bible into Hungarian.

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