The Franciscan Church is a place of worship in

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. It was built between 1260 and 1290, on the site of an older Catholic church destroyed during the

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in 1241.

History

In 1390, the

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monks received the church. They extended it and built a small

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cloister near the church, with the help of John Hunyadi. In 1556, the Queen of

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moved to the cloister and lived there with her son John II Sigismund Zápolya until 1557. The church is located on Museum Square (''Piața Muzeului''), previously known as the Little Square (''Piața Mică'') to distinguish it from the Large Square surrounding St. Michael's Church; Caroline Square (''Piața Carolina'' or ''Karolina ter''), after the nearby Caroline Obelisk built in honor of the 1817 visit of

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and her husband Francis II; and Dimitrov Square (''Piața Dimitrov''), so named in the early communist period for

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."Biserica şi fosta mănăstire franciscană din Cluj"
, ''Jurnalul Național'', July 26, 2007; accessed July 26, 2013

Notes

References

* Lukacs Jozsef - ''Povestea „oraşului-comoară”'', Editura Biblioteca Apostrof, Cluj-Napoca, 2005 * Bodea Gheorghe - ''Clujul vechi şi nou'', Cluj-Napoca, 2002

External links

Biserica şi fosta mănăstire franciscană din Cluj (The Franciscan church and cloister from Cluj-Napoca)

Churches in Cluj-Napoca 13th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Romania Baroque church buildings in Romania Churches completed in 1290 Franciscan churches Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia Historic monuments in Cluj County {{Romania-church-stub