The Church „Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” in Bobâlna (Hunedoara County) Cover Image

Biserica „Sfinţii Arhangheli Mihail şi Gavriil” din Bobâlna (jud. Hunedoara)
The Church „Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” in Bobâlna (Hunedoara County)

Author(s): Florin Dobrei
Subject(s): History
Published by: Editura Altip
Keywords: Church; the spiritual patrons „Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel”; priest Ioan Sabău; Bobâlna; Hunedoara County

Summary/Abstract: Talking about the religious life of the community parishes Bobâlna involves, necessarily, to make reference to its churches, yesterday and today. Current church building year „Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” from the „high road” is not known precisely, assuming that time about the removal of his turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is a place of worship large, consisting of an altar unhooked polygonal three sides, a rectangular nave spacious, divided into nave and narthex, a belfry floor flanked by two towers octagonal miniature, equipped with a gazebo closed and a pyramidal wood helmet, wrapped in tin. The rich iconographic decoration, comprising the entire interior of the church and opened its western porch, was conducted during the years 1969-1971, by the painter Constantin Niţulescu from Bucharest, helped by his apprentices Vasile Niţulescu, Ioan Badea and Cristian Niţulescu.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 249-262
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English, Romanian