Calvinist Castle Church
Historical Hungarian county:
Háromszék
GPS coordinates:
45.8731461924, 25.7858705905
History
The church of Sepsiszentgyörgy was first mentioned in 1332, when its priest was Mihály.
The late Gothic church was built around the 15th-16th centuries. It was built in three phases: first the polygonal sanctuary with its net vault, then the nave, and finally the external buttresses. The church was once surrounded by a high double fortified wall, the inner high wall being surrounded by a lower outer wall. A tower rose on one of the two bastions of the walls.
In 1547, Daczó Pál had it rebuilt at his own expense into a one-nave hall church with a net vault.
In 1658 it was devastated by Tatars. In 1728 and 1738 it was hit by earthquakes. The medieval church tower, demolished in 1738, was replaced by a taller tower in 1761. In 1786, the outer wall of the fortification, damaged by the Turkish and Tatar invasions of 1658 and 1661, was demolished.
The nave of the church, which collapsed in the 1802 earthquake, was replaced in 1805 with a flat, plastered ceiling, and in 1829 the bell tower was built (on the site of the former gate tower, which had also collapsed). The fortification's inner wall was also damaged in the earthquake of 1802. In 1894, a new organ loft was built at the east end of the sanctuary. The 1940 earthquake damaged the church and the defensive walls. The walls were restored in the middle of the last century, when the upper part of the north side was rebuilt. The monument church was repaired in 1978 and the defensive walls were rebuilt in 1979-1980.
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