Map of Baia Mare: Monastery Minorites

In the 15th century, the first representatives of the minority cluster appeared in Baia Mare. In 1547, when the reformer Kopácsi István converted the whole city to the reformed religion, all the other denominations were abolished. More than 100 years Baia Mare has been no order.
n the second part of the seventeenth century. the anti-Reformation current strengthens and the Jesuits and the minorities reappear. Lipót I. in 1687 offers to the minors the church of St. Nicholas (Miklós). In the eighteenth century the order obtained land in the center, which raised clastrul single level, which was subsequently floors. In 1773 the demolition Jesuits in this building functioned still Jesuits entrusted Minorite school. In 1787 King József II has introduced compulsory schools German empire.
This measure was not accepted by the minors, as a result the school was taken over by lay teachers, and moved to the residence purchased in the meantime by the town hall. After World War II the order of the minorities left the country.

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: Mezei Elemér

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: Ștefan Lăcătușu

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: Ștefan Lăcătușu

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: Ștefan Lăcătușu

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: WR

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: Ștefan Lăcătușu

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: Ștefan Lăcătușu

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: Ștefan Lăcătușu

Monastery Minorites, Baia Mare·, Photo: Ștefan Lăcătușu

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