Bisericile din Berbeşti, Maramureş
Churches in Berbeşti, Maramureş

Summary/Abstract: From all the studies performed until now by specialists in the field, results with full certitude the fact that in Maramures and also in Berbesti there was an clerical organisation still in the first part of the 12th century. Tit Bud makes two mentions that in prove the existe of a wodden church in Berbesti before 1758. So at page 25 from the mentioned work, the author tells us that “the old church (in Berbesti) before 1758 was given to the believers from Vad”, and at the page 76 it is mentioned that” the priest from Vad, Vasiliu Ioodi wrote to me that the old church was given by the believers from Berbesti, and they gave them for the church wood in order for them to built another church, which in present day is still in Berbesti”. The second wodden church was built in Berbesti in 1758. After a thorough investigation done by Atanasie Pops, in 15 July 1932 it is received an demolition authorisation with the request that the following object to be mentioned in the church CH or at the museum in Sighet: the entrance gate,a portion of a painting with the women's place and the Wedding in Cana Galilei, two windows from the altar-the one in the East and the one in the South-Est and the iconostasis. The stone church started to be built in 1889 and was finished in 1914.

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