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Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral

Catedrala Încoronării
Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral
Catedrala Încoronării
Alba Iulia (Gyulafehérvár, Karlsburg) - Orthodox Cathedral (2)
Pudelek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Orthodox
Address:
Strada Mihai Viteazu 16
Historical Hungarian county:
Alsó-Fehér
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.06843115, 23.5697206129
Google map:

History

The Orthodox church was built shortly after the Romanian occupation, between 1921 and 1922, in the centre of the historic and sacral capital of Transylvania, inhabited by Hungarians, as a symbol of the conquest, for the coronation of the Romanian monarchs Ferdinand I and Mary on 15 October 1922. It was built in the immediate vicinity of the medieval cathedral of the ancient Catholic diocese of Transylvania. It is a copy of the church of Târgoviste in Wallachia.

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