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The wooden Churches of Maramureş were built after the Hungarian King forbade the people in this area to build stone churches which could have been used as fortifications like the
ones built by the Saxons in Transylvania.
There is a strong tradition of building wooden churches
right across Eastern Europe, from Karelia and northern Russia all the way to the
Adriatic, but in terms of both quality and quantity the richest examples are in
Maramureş.
Folk festival Pasul de Prislop Romania
From 1278 the Orthodox Romanians were forbidden by their Catholic Hungarian overlords to build churches in stone, and so used wood to ape Gothic developments. In general, the walls are built of blockwork (squared.off logs laid horizontally) with intricate joints, cantilevered out in places to form brackets or consoles supporting the eaves.
Hărniceşti Lăpuş
Staircase in the new church
The Monastery “Synaxis of the
12 Holy Apostles" from
Bârsana
Deseşti pensiunea Anca
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Ieud
Mănăstirea Ieud Sfinţii Trei Ierarhi
Most of the Maramures
churches were rebuilt after the last Tatar rid in 1717, acquiring large porches
and tall towers, often with four
corner-pinnacles, clearly derived
from the masonry
architecture of the
Transylvanian cities.
Since 1989 there has been a renaissance of
the Uniate (Greco-Catholic) faith, repressed
under Communism and forcibly merged
with the Romanian Orthodox Church
Miya Kosei was born in 1937 in Tokyo. He studied literature, art, history and ethnology, economics and sociology. He came first time in Romania in 1965. He likes very much Maramureş and visited it hundred times. Many of his books and volumes of photos are dedicated to Romania and Maramureş.
Plopiş, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Church of the Holy Parasceve, Poienile IzeiUNESCO World Heritage Site
Church of the Holy Archangels, Şurdeşti UNESCO World Heritage Site
Church of the Holy Archangels, Şurdeşti
„St Archangels” Wooden Church (1860), Rãzoare
Church of the Holy Archangels, Rogoz UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Autumn in Maramureş
Spring -Coştiui, Rona de Sus, Maramureş
Baia Mare Orthodox Cathedral
Baia Mare “Sfatul bătrânilor” Vida Geza, 1971 (Dacian myth of the wise elderly called “Tarabostes”).
Săpânţa is a commune in Maramureş County in northern Romania, 15 kilometers northwest of Sighet and just south of the Tisza River. It is known for its "Merry Cemetery"
CareiRomanian Soldier Monument, 1964Sculptor Vida Geza (1913- 1980)
Satu Mare
Satu Mare, Hotel Dacia1902
Satu Mare, Catedrala Greco-Catolică Sf.
Arhangheli Mihail şi Gavriil, 1932-1937
The church was built in the inter- war period between 1932 and 1937. The style of the construction is inspired from the traditional Romanian architecture, with a dome erected over the walls of the nave through an intermediary level, the pronave flanked by two side towers, with the monumental entrance portal, drawn by an archivolt with profiles ornamented with rope moulding and acanthus stalks.
Forest railway in Valea Vaserului in Maramureş
“Mocãniţa from the Vaser Valley" forest railway in Vişeu de Sus is located in the north of Romania, on the border with Ukraine
Sound: Gheorghe Zamfir - Cantec din Ardeal.Mocrita cu trifoi
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