Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 29/2. (2009)
Cultură materială
44 Marisia XXIX ABREVIERI ActaMN - Acta Musei Napocensis, Anuarul Muzeului National de Istorie a Transilvaniei, Cluj, I, 1964... AIIN, All, Anuarul Institutului de Istorie Nationale, Cluj, I.1921-IX.1947; Din anul 1958: Anuarul Institutului de Istorie din Cluj Apulum - Apulum, Anuarul Muzeului National al Unirii, Alba Iulia, I, 1942... Transilvania - Transilvania, Revistä lunarä de culturä Organul Asociatiunii pentru literatura romána §i cultura poporului román (ASTRA), Sibiu THE ORTHODOX WOODEN CHURCH OF „ST. NICHOLAS" IN CU?TELNIC, MURE§ COUNTY - A VALUABLE MONUMENT OF ROMANIAN FOLK ART Cu§telnic is a place located in the neighborhood of town Tárnáveni. The hill dominating the northern part of the place shelters in the cemetery placed there a valuable monument of folk art: the wooden church dedicated to „Saint Nicolas". It is believed that the church was constructed in 1751 actually a reconstruction of an older church and of another church relocated from Deda. The preserved inscriptions reveal that the church was constructed by Pätru Moraru of Sänmärtin for the family of Ganea Pätru, founders. The church has a peculiar shape, like a ship: a rectangular nave, a five sided polygonal unhooked apse towards the east and a hooked ending of a three-sided narthex. The walls connected with the girders form brackets decorated by successive recedes. The two entrances, in the narthex and the nave, are remarkable because their keyhole shape can only be seen in the wooden church of Läpu§na, having no other replicas in the country. Both entrances are framed by traditional Romanian carvings. The painting was accomplished in two stages: in 1756 when the altar was decorated by Iacov, the master painter and then in 1787 when Popa Nicolae and Ban Vasilie decorated the nave and the narthex.
