St. Nicholas Church, Orlat

St. Nicholas Church (Romanian: Biserica Sfântul Nicolae) is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 542 Câmpușorului Street, Orlat, Sibiu County, Romania. It is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.

St. Nicholas Church

The church dates to 1794. It is listed as a historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs.[1]

From 1910 to 1916, writer Ion Agârbiceanu served there as a parish priest, when the church was still Greek Catholic.[2]

Notes

  1. (in Romanian) Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2010: Județul Sibiu Archived 2018-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
  2. (in Romanian) Onuc Nemeș-Vintilă (ed.), "Ion Agârbiceanu", Conferințele ASTREI, Issue 7, p. 4. Sibiu: Biblioteca Județeană ASTRA, 2007.

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