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Calvinist Church

Calvinist Church
Calvinist Cathedral
Bomctuck, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Calvinist
Settlement:
Nagyszalonta, Salonta
Address:
Strada Corneliu Coposu
Historical Hungarian county:
Bihar
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.8014883872, 21.6605138537
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History

The church was built between 1750 and 1755 with donations from wealthy farmers in neoclassical style. It was once surrounded by walls reinforced with bastions. The church was damaged by fire in 1847 and rebuilt between 1853 and 1854. Between 1902 and 1918, the Reformed Diocese of Nagyszalonta had as its trustee Count Tisza István, whose 150th anniversary was commemorated by a plaque on the church wall. Tisza István was the prime minister of Hungary. The tower clock marks the passing of time with the Kossuth song.

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