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Salt Miners' Chirch

Biserica Șovagăilor
Salt Miners' Chirch
Biserica Șovagăilor
2009-DSC06784
Ana Maria Catalina, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Orthodox
Settlement:
Torda, Turda
Address:
Strada Calarasi
Historical Hungarian county:
Torda-Aranyos
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.5801013387, 23.7810344991
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History

After the suppression of the Transylvanian tax uprising in 1467, King Matthias of Hungary entrusted his uncle, Oláh Miklós, with the management of the Transylvanian salt mines, which had their centre in Torda. He allowed the Vlach workers in the mines to build a church for themselves. The wooden church was rebuilt by the Greek Catholics in 1717. In 1948, after the banning of the Greek Catholic denomination, it was given to the Orthodox, who rebuilt it in Byzantine style.

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