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A high building to elevate you

Str. Mitropoliei 33-35
Sibiu is the seat of the Metropolitan Church of Ardeal (founded in 1861), one of the religious centers of the Orthodox Church in Romania.
The initiative of building an orthodox cathedral in Sibiu belonged to bishop Andrei Saguna as early as 1857, the actual building starting only in 1902.
This ample edifice ha a symmetric organization and a central plan which attempts to copy, at a smaller scale, the elevation of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople.
The original paintings of the church and those of the rood screen were made by Octavian Smigelschi.
He was the promoter of the neo-Byzantine style in Sibiu, a synthesis between the Byzantine art and the Romanian folkloric art, inaugurating "the modern ecclesiastic art in Ardeal".
Other perspectives here and here (interior)