The Orthodox Cathedral Adormirea Maicii Domnului

The Orthodox Cathedral Adormirea Maicii Domnului was also like other places under the auspices of that period when the Orthodox believers were not allowed to build churches inside the fortress. This is also the reason why the church stands hidden inside the yard of a house.

The conflict between the Romanians and Greek concerning the Holy Trinity church, giving Greeks full rights upon the building, lead people inside the fortress to request the construction of a new chapel. Therefore in the Council square earlier named Wheat Fair, the chapel of Sf Adormiri is built in 1833. This was possible due to the memoir forwarded in 1828 to the Government by the bishop Vasile Moga. To build the chapel the authorities conditioned to be raised 21.670 florins through a public subscription and buy the house hidden from street of a famous editor and typographer. Because there was little room inside the Groaveri church and therefore the good functioning of the church services begins the construction of Sf Adormire Orthodox Cathedral and the vicarage under the skills of the architect Brus. The church is built after the Orthodox Greek church in Vienna model and receives the blessing from the bishop Ioan Metianu in 1899. At construction worked various craftsmen like bricklayers, carpenters, and blacksmiths. It is good to know that the inner length of the building is 27 meters, 12.5 meters wide and is surrounded by a 2500 meters high empty ditch. In 1973 the inner Byzantine style tower was rebuilt after being destroyed in the earthquake from 1940 and the three inner towers were brought from Hungary. The school principal and sculptor Kuptsay sculpted and polished the church iconostasis. He also made the pulpit, bishop chair and chore galleries. The scholar Bartholomeu Baiulescu who wrote the first craftsman magazine “The Romanian Craftsman” was also the cathedral’s bishop. The churchwarden Ioan Bran of Lemeny the hero from Liberty Hill (Campia Libertatii) from 1848 is buried in the cemetery of the Sf Adormire Orthodoxe Church.

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