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The Romano Catholic Church of Saint Emeric was built in the thirteenth century by the first Christian settlers in present day Ghelinta. The stone church has a painted wooden ceiling and its walls are decorated with Gothic murals. Various interventions and transformations took place during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. (...)

The Romano Catholic Church of Saint Emeric was built in the thirteenth century by the first Christian settlers in present day Ghelinta. The stone church has a painted wooden ceiling and its walls are decorated with Gothic murals. Various interventions and transformations took place during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Layers of architectural history are visible in the church’s Gothic, Renaissance, and baroque elements. The stability of the structure’s framework had been threatened by earthquakes, and the murals and painted ceiling were damaged by condensation from humidity, as well as from rain leaking through the roof. The decorations, including the wooden altars, stone windows, and interior and exterior murals were in poor condition and in need of restoration.