The Piața Sfatului Orthodox Church is a

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church located at 3

Piața Sfatului The Council Square (''Piața Sfatului'' in Romanian, former ''Marktplatz'' in German, ''Főtér'' or ''Tanács tér'' in Hungarian) is located in the historic centre of Brașov, Romania. It obtained its right to hold markets in 1520, but it h ...

Brașov Brașov (, , ; , also ''Brasau''; ; ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the county seat (i.e. administrative centre) of Brașov County. According to the 2021 Romanian census, ...

, Romania. It is dedicated to the

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. A small one-room chapel opened inside the Brașov Citadel in 1829. In 1866, due to deterioration, it was closed down, its congregants assigned to the Greek Church. In 1895, Archbishop Miron Romanul laid the cornerstone of the present church, which was dedicated by his successor Ioan Mețianu in 1899.Description
at the Brașov archpriest’s district site The church represented a symbolic advance for the city’s Romanians, from the peripheral St. Nicholas into the main square, traditionally a

Saxon The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...

space.Bálint Varga, ''The Monumental Nation: Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary'', p. 118. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, ISBN 978-178533-314-9 The style is neo-Byzantine, with a central dome and bell tower. It measures 26.6 by 12.3 meters. A spire facing Piața Sfatului was added later. This collapsed during the

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and was rebuilt in 1973. The

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is carved and gilt, and was painted in 1898. The interior painting, dating to 1937, was restored in 1965–1966, 1985 and 2005. The church is listed as a

historic monument A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical ...

by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs.Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2010: Județul Brașov

References

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