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Two Sisters from Cluj-Napoca
Archeologists claim that the church’s catacombs are older than the building itself and that there are some tombs of a great historical value, but they haven’t got the permission to examine them thoroughly. So, what lies under the Church Saint Michael is yet to be discovered.
After enjoying a moment of tranquility inside, when stepping outside, you should notice, that, starting from the steps of Church Saint Michael, there is a street leading exactly to the other impressive religious building that you saw from the hill of Feleac. You follow this rather narrow path and you notice that many buildings, from both sides of the street, are identical. This is not an accident, they were designed like this.
At the end of this umbilical cord there is the other sister – The Orthodox Cathedral from Cluj-Napoca. It is younger that the Catholic Church, as it was built in 1920 – 1930, after Transylvania was unified with Romania on the 1st of December 1918. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, a holiday that it is celebrated by the Orthodox on the 15th of August.
The bishop Nicolae Ivan is the person who took the initiative of building an Orthodox cathedral in Cluj-Napoca. In 1919, he addressed the Dirigent Council (a temporary government that led Transylvania until it became part of Romania) and received the necessary funds to start the construction. He also succeeded in obtaining the approval from the mayor to build the Cathedral in the city center, close to the National Theater.
The architects that were entrusted with this project were George Cristinel and Constantin Pompoiu, the same that executed the designs for the Marasesti Mausoleum (a monument situated in Vrancea County, where an important battle of the First World War took place). The Byzantine influences are obvious in the cathedral’s architecture – the dome tends to imitate the one from Hagia Sophia in Constantinopole (now Istanbul). The bells were brought from Hungary and the biggest of them weights 2 tons. The interior paintings were executed by Anastasie Demian and Catul Bogdan from the Romanian Art Academy, between 1928 – 1933. The orthodox Cathedral from Cluj was inaugurated in 1933, in the presence of the Patriarch Miron Cristea and the king of Romania Charles II.
Author: Iulian Fira
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