"intre Romani" (Among Romanians) Turda Orthodox Church Turda

“Intre Romani” neighbourhood, until 1861 there was an Orthodox church destroyed by a fire caused by a lightning. Between 1861-1865 the Metropolitan Andrei Saguna organized a public collection to raise funds nedeed to build a new church. This new church, located on Sirenei Street, was made in a vessel shape and the painting was renovated in 1919, when the royal family, King Ferdinand and Queen Mary respectively, visited the place of worship.

In this church was chosen in 1810 Vasile Moga, the first Romanian Orthodox bishop in Transylvania after 1700 and the bishop Andrei Saguna who became later Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Transylvania.