Monastery Church, Sighișoara

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The Monastery Church, also known as the Church of the Dominican Monastery (Romanian: Biserica Mănăstirii Dominicane, German: Dominikanerkapelle), is a Gothic church formerly part of a medieval Dominican monastery in Sighișoara, Romania. The monastery was erected in 1289, and demolished in 1888.[1] The monastery was one of a network planned by Paulus Hungarus (Paul the Hungarian) throughout the Kingdom of Hungary to act as a bulwark against heresy.[2] Hungarian nobleman Leonard Barlabássy gave the church an endowment.[3]

References

  1. 1.Mallows 2012, p. 189.
  2. 2.Spinei 2012, p. 420.
  3. 3.Crăciun 2011, p. 64.