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Church of the Lepers, Holy Spirit Church

Biserica Sfântul Spirit
Church of the Lepers, Holy Spirit Church
Biserica Sfântul Spirit
Biserica leprosilor din Sighisoara
Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Greek Catholic
Settlement:
Segesvár, Sighișoara
Address:
Strada Ștefan cel Mare 34
Historical Hungarian county:
Nagy-Küküllő
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.2249681639, 24.7894327358
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History

Located outside the town walls, it was built in the 15th century. It was part of a complex of buildings outside the town walls on the banks of the Küküllő River, which included a school, a teachers' house, a hospital for lepers and a church. Lepers were not allowed to enter the church, but the priest went out to them to preach from the pulpit on the outside wall of the church. The pulpit was not used from 1684 and the hospital was demolished at the end of the 19th century when the railway was built.

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