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St. Nicholas Greek Catholic Cathedral

Catedrala Greco-Catolică Sf.Nicolae
St. Nicholas Greek Catholic Cathedral
Catedrala Greco-Catolică Sf.Nicolae
Catedrala Sfântul Nicolae, Oradea
Insidercam, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Greek Catholic
Settlement:
Nagyvárad, Oradea
Address:
Strada Iuliu Maniu nr. 1
Historical Hungarian county:
Bihar
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
47.0540997643, 21.9275446859
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History

In 1800, Bishop Ignatie Darabant demolished the Unitarian church on the site of the cathedral that was to be built. The tower was completed by 1803 and the church was built between 1808 and 1810. The tower's present spire was added between 1910 and 1912 by the architect Rimanóczy Kálmán Jr. In 1948 the Romanians banned the Greek Catholic Church and gave the building to the Orthodox Church.

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