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Lutheran Church

Biserica Luterană
Lutheran Church
Biserica Luterană
OrastieHD2012 (23)
Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Lutheran
Historical Hungarian county:
Hunyad
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.8371625157, 23.1957358099
Google map:

History

The church was built between 1820 and 1823 (the tower between 1839 and 1842). It was built due to the disputes between the Reformed (Calvinist) and Lutheran denominations, as the present Reformed church was used jointly by Hungarian Calvinists and Saxon Lutherans.

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