Preceding Structures
The first church that is know was made of wood, but it was pulled down in the 19th century.
Another church made of stone that can be seen nowadays was built by a feudal lord, Gheorghe Berevoii, from Govãjdia (a neighboring village) in 1770, to thank God for having healed his wife. The church is Orthodox, although the feudal lord was a Calvinist, and has an outstandingly beautiful painting: There are scene from Passion Week and portraying the soldiers that insulted Christ, wearing the clothes of the people who had oppressed the Romanians from Transylvannia.
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