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Unitarian church

Unitarian church
2009-SP A0265
Ana Maria Catalina, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Unitarian
Settlement:
Torda, Turda
Address:
Strada Dacia 3
Historical Hungarian county:
Torda-Aranyos
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.573901318, 23.7832082831
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History

In the middle of the 16th century, under John II (John Sigismund), the inhabitants of the town converted to Unitarianism. Later, they lost ground to the Calvinist and Catholic denominations. In 1721, the great church had to be returned to the Catholics. Left without a church, they built their new church between 1791 and 1792. Its tower was built between 1801 and 1809.

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