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Transfiguration Cathedral, Cluj-Napoca

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28: 235:, in 1556, the Friars Minor were expelled from the city. They were permitted to come back only in 1724 and could settle down only outside the city walls. Around 1765, the city council gave permission to the monks to settle down within the city walls. The church and the monastery were built in 1778-79, but the tower collapsed on 24 September 1779 due to mistakes made at the basement works. The re-building of the tower was financed by the empress 247:. The tower and the roof of the church burnt down in 1798, and a temporary wooden roof was constructed. The new roof was built only in the 19th century. The murals of the ceiling were painted by Ferenc Lohr in 1908. 254:
to support the construction of the church. Many of them were later entombed in the church's crypt until 1834, when burials within the city walls were forbidden due to a cholera epidemic. Seven Baroque and
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After the decline of Communism (1989), the Greek-Catholic Church asked for the restitution of the building, but they were refused. After a long litigation process, on 20 February 1998, the Court of
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Sas Péter: A római katolikus egyház hatása a város építészetére (The influence of the Roman Catholic Church on the architecture of the city) in: Kolozsvár 1000, pp. 202
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decided in the favour of the Greek Catholic Church. On 20 March 1998 Orthodox priests held a procession in the centre of Cluj to protest again the restitution.
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in Cluj was the building known today as the Calvinist Church of Farkas street. After the
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honorary monuments, mostly of wealthy Armenian families, can be found in the church.
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Gaal György: Kolozsvár kétezer esztendeje dátumokban, in: Kolozsvár 1000. pp. 368
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Gaal György: Kolozsvár kétezer esztendeje dátumokban, in: Kolozsvár 1000. pp. 350
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Affiliation
Romanian Greek-Catholic
Eparchy of Cluj-Gherla
Ecclesiastical or organizational status
Cathedral
Year consecrated
Cluj-Napoca
Romania
Architect(s)
Style
Baroque
Romanian
Romanian
Hungarian
Romanian Greek-Catholic Church
Cluj-Gherla Eparchy
Gherla
Cluj
Minorites
Reformation
Maria Theresa of Austria
Bánffy Palace
Johann Eberhard Blaumann
Mass stipends
Empire style
Pope Pius XI
Greek-Catholic Church
Cluj-Gherla Eparchy
Romanian Orthodox Church

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