Acasa 17

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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

Peri

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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