Negustori, meşteri croitori şi ateliere de veşminte liturgice între 1850 şi 1950
Merchants, Master-Tailors and Workshops of Liturgical Vestments between 1850 and 1950

Summary/Abstract: This study proposes identification of supplying sources and liturgical vestments that got in the Orthodox and Greek-Catholic parishes from the territory of nowadays Alba County. Documentary sources are represented by funds of parishes and achpriestships from Alba County Department of National Archives and the National Museum of Unification from Alba Iulia, but also advertisements of workshops and vestment shops published within newspapers Gazeta Transilvaniei, Albina, Tribuna Poporului and Unirea. A diversified world, with commercial preoccupations, pedlars and materials that some got from great distances: Vienna, Budapest, Galicia, Serbian Banat or from closer areas: Sibiu, Blaj, Nicula, Gherla. Only that, unfortunately, in the case of liturgical vestments of churches of Romanian communities from Alba County we refer to heritage disappeared almost completely, saving endeavour remaining one at strictly documentary level.

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