Liviu, Marta - Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Andrid. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2011)
Dindeşti - Érdengeleg
during the Middle Ages and early modern period. During the eighteenth century, the most important landowner of the area became the family originating in the neighboring village of Irina. Most of the serf estates of the village were divided between many small nobles, a similar situation to the one in the commune centre, Andrid, whose history is largely shared with the one of Dindeşti during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The sources on Dindeşti, from the second half of the eighteenth century describe a prosperous village, with multiple and rich agricultural resources, with no less than five functional mills, which could offer even to foreigners the possibility of paid seasonal daywork. The population was a mixed community from ethnic and religious point of view, with Greek-Catholic and Calvinist parishes. In the mid nineteenth century, the village had 745 people of Greek Catholic confession, 332 Calvinists, 28 Roman Catholics and 54 Hebrew. The Orthodox Church of “St. Nicholas”. The church belonging to the Romanian community of Dindeşti is mentioned in the protocols of the canonical visit in 1747, as a newly built wooden church. The present day building dates from 1800. The massive tower, built in the nave, comes one level above it. The two niches for cantors (the kliros) with individual roofs give an elegant aspect to the short nave with semicircular closing. The most valuable element of the interior inventory is the iconostasis, dating from the end of the 18th century. The later interventions do not modify the value of the iconostasis. The white and gold painted frame is decorated with geometrical and vegetal motifs, predominantly vine. The royal icons were replaced with new ones and the interior painting was completely rebuilt in 1993. In the church are still kept the icon of the Holy Virgin as Queen with the Child and a silver chalice, both dating from the nineteenth century. The chalice is decorated with anthropomorphic and vegetal miniature paintings of rare beauty, Biserica ortodoxă din Dindeşti Az érdengelegi ortodox templom The Orthodox church of Dindeşti 35
