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St. Nicholas Church

St. Nicholas Church
RO HD Biserica Sfantul Ierarh Nicolae din Hunedoara (8)
Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Orthodox
Settlement:
Vajdahunyad, Hunedoara
Address:
Piaţa Unirii
Historical Hungarian county:
Hunyad
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.7462219569, 22.8954163892
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History

The church's wooden tower, which gives the impression of a fortress, was built in 1458. In 1634 it belonged to the Reformed Church. It was rebuilt before 1654, and its interior painting from this period is the work of Constantine and Stan Caian. In 1827 it was enlarged and a Byzantine bell tower was added, which was not in accordance with the style of the building. The church preserves two 15th century icons of great artistic merit (St Nicholas and the Mother of God - Hodegetria), which were brought here from the destroyed monastery of Ploska in the second half of the 18th century. The iconostasis of 1654 is the oldest surviving complete iconostasis in Transylvania.

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