Historic Transylvania, Partium and the Banat form the large and diverse eastern part of the Carpathian Basin, where the Hungarian Catholic, Reformed and Unitarian churches have been present for centuries.
Here stand the cathedral of Alba Iulia (Gyulafehérvár), centre of the thousand-year-old Transylvanian bishopric, Oradea (Nagyvárad), home of the cult of King Saint Ladislaus, the Gothic St Michael’s Church of Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) and the shrine of Maria Radna in the Banat, which still draws tens of thousands of pilgrims.
Shrines and churches
Maria Radna, Lipova (Máriaradna)Basilica of the Mother of Graces – Maria Radna (Máriaradna)The most important pilgrimage site of the Diocese of Timișoara in the Mureș valley: the Baroque church of the miraculous image that survived a fire.Oradea (Nagyvárad)Basilica of the Assumption – Oradea (Nagyvárad)The largest Baroque church in Romania and centre of the cult of King Saint Ladislaus, whose reliquary bust is kept here.Alba Iulia (Gyulafehérvár)St Michael's Cathedral – Alba Iulia (Gyulafehérvár)The mother church of Transylvanian Catholicism: the 13th-century cathedral is the resting place of John Hunyadi, Queen Isabella and Bishop Áron Márton.Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár)St Michael's Church – Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár)Transylvania's earliest hall church on the main square of Cluj: venue of princely elections and of Áron Márton's 1944 sermon.
