The Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral dedicated to "Holly Trinity" – Sibiu

 

Location

84 km north of Ramnicu Valcea, 72 km south-east of Alba Iulia, 55 km east of Sebes, 62 km south-west of Agnita.

  The cathedral was built between 1902 and 1906 under the rule of the Archbishop and Metropolitan Ioan Metianu.

Architecture

The architecture is in the Byzantine style with the influences of the modern Romanian style; it was built by project of the architects Iosif Commer and Virgil Nagy.

The Fresco Pictures

are in the Oriental style, made by the painter Octavian Smighelschi. The mural pictures are in the religious style. There are the icons of the four Evangelists, the wood sculptures, the four bells – harmonized by the musicology Gh. Dima from Brasov, the historical collection, the historical documents and the galleries with wood and glass icons.

   Here was priest the Metropolitan Andrei Saguna (1809 – 1873), a big scholar, a fighter for national Independence of the Romanian people and Romanian Orthodox Church from Transylvania and member of the Romania Academy (1871).