Reformed Fortified Church – Sepsiszentgyörgy
The present late Gothic form of the church was probably acquired in 1547, when Daczó Pál, its patron, had it built at his own expense. The church was repeatedly damaged by successive earthquakes. The church building was originally surrounded by two walls – a ring of fortifications – and had two protective towers. The outer wall was demolished by the parish in 1786; the stones were used to build the building intended for the German school, which stands next to the bell tower and serves today as a bell tower. In the temple’s interior, we can find the gravesites of many outstanding figures associated with Sepsiszentgyörgy their names: here rest, among others, the mayors Császár Bálint and Gödri Ferenc, and Málik József, the founder editor of the newspaper Székely Nemzet. József Váradi and Ferenc Bartalis erected the obelisk of the 1848 martyrs here again. The curved section of the defensive wall facing the cemetery is surrounded by numerous tombstones. The first was erected in 1983 by the end-of-war architects Mikós in 1943. Since then, the number of these tombstones has grown to more than seventy, which preserve the memory of the deceased teachers and students of the Székely Mikó College.
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