St. Catherine of Alexandria Church
Biserica Sfânta Ecaterina
St. Catherine of Alexandria Church
Biserica Sfânta Ecaterina
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Roman Catholic
Settlement:
Address:
Strada Bolyai János 4
Historical Hungarian county:
Temes
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.7542432794, 21.228437707
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History
The church of St Catherine is the successor of the medieval church of the same patron saint. The medieval church was the burial place of the wife of King Charles I of Hungary, Mary Catherine, who died in the 14th century when Temesvár was the royal seat of Hungary for a short period. Temesvár and its region was populated by Hungarians until the Turkish occupation. The church belonged to the Franciscan monks of the Salvatorian order. In 1723, the church was demolished for the construction of the fortress and the monks moved to the centre of the town, where they built a new Baroque church on the site of an old mill between 1753 and 1756. Between 1887 and 1889 it was rebuilt in neoclassical style.
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