Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Parish Church
Biserica Romano-Catolică Sfânta Maria
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Parish Church
Biserica Romano-Catolică Sfânta Maria
Address:
Piața Republicii 54
Historical Hungarian county:
Torda-Aranyos
GPS coordinates:
46.5745620851, 23.7849088983
History
In the Middle Ages it was a church dedicated to St Nicholas.
In 1342 the priest of the church, Miklós, was mentioned. Between 1465 and 1485, the priests of the church were Kolozsvári Gergely, Tordai Imre and Zendi Mihály. The inscriptions of the sanctuary (1473, 1478) were made during their time. In the 1470s, King Matthias of Hungary made a significant donation to the church. From the income of the salt chamber he gave 12 forints a year, a cloth for a suit of clothes and 2 gold coins a week for masses for the spiritual salvation of the Hungarian kings. At the end of the 15th century the parish started building a huge new church, which may be connected with the donation. The new church was built by building around the old one. The parish priest Tordai János (1492-1508) built the main part of the church, and the dates of the nave (1493, 1504) fall within his tenure.
Its last Catholic priest was Kelemen in 1551. After that, the majority of the town's population was Lutheran, Calvinist and by 1565 Unitarian. In the Principality of Transylvania, there were lively religious debates, largely within the walls of the church, and the Torda Diets were held here, which enacted religious freedom (1557, 1568). In 1601, Basta, who massacred the population of Újtorda, gave the church to the Jesuits, but in 1604 it was repaired by the Unitarians.
In 1686, a German detachment destroyed Torda, and by 1698 it had been restored from the devastation.
In 1721, the church was returned to the Catholics under the threat of General Virmond, the military governor of Transylvania.
In the mid-18th century, a lightning strike burnt down the west front tower, which was then demolished. Work began in the 1770s and the church was restored to its present appearance. The 1821 plaque on the neoclassical west facade marks the end of the works. The works were supervised by Kövesi János, master builder from Torda, from 1800 and financed by a donation from Bishop Batthyány Ignác. The monumental, late Baroque, neoclassical main altar was ordered by Bishop Batthyány Ignác and was made by Hoffmayer Simon from Kolozsvár in 1794. Its sculptural group depicts the Crucifixion. The decoration and painting of the church interior was the work of Vitkai János from Marosvásárhely. Its pulpit was made in 1824 by Csűrös Antal.
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