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Church Attractions In Sibiu

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Sibiu is a city in Transylvania, Romania, with a population of 147,245. Located some 275 km north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the river Olt. Now the capital of Sibiu County, between 1692 and 1791 and 1849–65 Sibiu was the capital of the Principality of Transylvania. Sibiu is one of the most important cultural centres of Romania and was designated the European Capital of Culture for the year 2007, along with the city of Luxembourg. Formerly the centre of the Transylvanian Saxons, the old city of Sibiu was ranked as Europe's 8th-most idyllic place to live by Forbes in 2008.The city administers the Păltiniș sk...
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  • 1. Biserica Romano Catolica Sibiu
    The Catholic Church in Romania is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Its administration is centered in Bucharest, and comprises two archdioceses and four other dioceses. It is the second largest Romanian denomination after the Romanian Orthodox Church, and one of the 16 state-recognized religions. Overall data for 2011 indicated that there were 870,774 Romanian citizens adhering to the Catholic Church . Of these, the largest groups were Hungarians , Romanians , Germans and Slovaks .Most Catholics inhabit the region of Transylvania and Bacău County in Moldavia. The smaller Catholic communities include Banat Bulgarians, Italians, Poles, Croats and Krashovani, Czechs, and Romani people.The Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholi...
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  • 2. Church of Saint Francis Sibiu
    Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church. It was characterized by new explorations of form, light and shadow, and dramatic intensity. Common features of Baroque architecture included gigantism of proportions; a large open central space where everyone could see the altar; twisting columns, theatrical effects, including light coming from a cupola above; dramatic interior effects created with bronze and gilding; clusters of sculpted angels and other figures high overhead; and an extensive use of trompe-l'oeil, also called quadratura, with painted architectural details and f...
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  • 3. Saint John's Church Sibiu
    Saint John's Church is a Lutheran church located at 30 Mitropoliei Street, Sibiu, Romania. A complex of buildings was raised on the site in 1881-1883 as an orphanage serving the city's Lutherans, with the Neo-Gothic church completed in 1883, the 400th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther. As there was a danger of collapse, this was demolished between 1911 and 1912, and a new church and priest's residence were built. The church is cross-shaped, with an octagonal steeple to the north and four corner towers. The building is largely unchanged from the early 20th century.
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  • 5. Church of the Annunciation Sibiu
    The Annunciation Church , also known as the Church in the Ditch , is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 5 Justiției Street in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu. Initially built between 1788 and 1789 using funds provided by the widow Stana Hagi Petru Luca, it was destroyed by an earthquake in October 1802 and completely rebuilt by her son-in-law Constantin Hagi Popp in 1802-1803. In 1805, the parish had forty families.The building is a small hall church. The spire, on the western edge, is divided into three stories and reaches a height of 40 m. The iconostasis was painted by Mișu Popp of Brașov. The rich interior mural painting was done after 1960. There are oil paintings of the three ktitors above the entrance door on the interior: Hagi Constantin Popp, Stana Petru Luca and Păuna Cons...
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  • 6. Reformed Church of Sibiu Sibiu
    The Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement is a Protestant Christian denomination in the Sabbatarian Adventist movement that formed from a schism in the European Seventh-day Adventist Church during World War I over the position its European church leaders took on Sabbath observance and on committing Adventists to the bearing of arms in military service for Imperial Germany in World War I.The movement was formerly organised on an international level in 1925 at Gotha, Germany and adopted the name Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement. It was first registered as a General Conference association in 1929 in Burgwedel, near Hanover, Germany. Following the General Conference association's dissolution by the Gestapo in 1936 it was re-registered in Sacramento, California, United States in 1949. Its ...
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