GPS: 47.05355 N, 21.92897 E
Oradea, Church with Moon
The cathedral of the orthodox episcopate of Oradea, the Church with Moon was built between 1784-1790, in baroque style with neoclassical influences after the plans of the architect Éder Jakab. The inside pictures were realized by the Teodorovici brothers and by Paul Murgu. It has a bell-tower of 55 m high.
In the tower under the clock there is a sphere with a diameter of 3 m painted half black and half golden. With the help of a mechanism the ball rotates in function of the rotation of the Moon round the Earth presented by his rotation all the Moon periods. The mechanism made in 1973 by the clock-maker Georg Rueppe sill function.
Toamna Orădeană
19.09.-12.10.2008
Accommodation possibilities in this area:
Inn Góbé
Pension Lan
Hotel Corola
Hotel Elite
Casa BIM
Hotel Nevis
Hotel Class
Hotel Maxim
Hotel Carnival
Robinson Country
Hotel Eden
Hotel Terra
PIHE hostel
Hotel Melody
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Other sights in Oradea
Ady Memorial museum <> Apolo Palace <> Astoria Hotel <> Bazar <> Black Eagle Palace <> Canon's Row <> Church of the Order of Mercy <> Church of the Premonstatense Order <> Church with Moon <> City Hall <> Deutsch house <> Evangelical Church <> Füchsl house <> Fortress of Oradea <> Greek Catholic Bishop Palace <> Holy Trinity Orthodox Church <> Medical Faculty <> Monastery of The Capucin Order <> Moskovits Palace <> Olosig Roman-Catholic church <> Orthodox Bishop Palace <> Orthodox Synagogues <> Palace of Public Finances <> Poinar Palace <> Reformed Church <> Rimanóczy Palace <> Roman-Catholic Basilica<> Roman-Catholic Bishop Palace <> Stern Palace <> St. Ierarh Nicolae Orthodox Church <> St. Ladisla's church <> St. Mihail and Gavril Orthodox Church <> Ursulina's Complex <> Theatre <> Tribunal <> Ulmann Palace <> Vila Okányi-Schwarz <> Zion Neological Synagogue