Liviu, Marta - Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Andrid. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2011)
Irina
donated in 1906 by the church curator of that time. The choir was built in 1893 on the expense of the cantor and teacher, Gabriel Sianta. The Calvinist Church has acquired its current aspect following the reconstruction-works after the earthquake of 1834, which destroyed the building almost entirely. After the disaster, for a period of over a decade, the mass was held in the ruined church, whose few intact structures were stabilized with wooden beams. The re-building of the church was started in 1846. The relatively small edifice is dominated by the four leveled tower added to the nave. The short nave, with semicircular closing, is equipped with decorative stepped buttresses. The most valuable piece of the church is the massive bell, weighing 300 kg, made by craftsman Rudolf Binger in 1595 and donated by Nicholas Dengelegi to the community. Irina It is one of the oldest villages in the county of Satu Mare, being mentioned in the Register of Oradea since 1219. After a documentary gap that takes over half a century, Irina appears again in the written historical sources in 1278, at the death without heirs of the village owner, Theodore, a former serf of Satu Mare County. Then, King Ladislaus IV returned the village to its rightful owners, the sons of the noble Vid. Vid’s family, who would be named after the village of their residence (Irinyi), already had a long and eventful history here. The ancestors of the owners of Irina, Vids father, was incorporated as military guard in the Solnoc fortress, as serf of the county, and then raised by king Bela III (1172-1196) to the royal servant ‘status, similar to that of noble. The military career of the family members has its climax during the life of Vid, who fought Biserica reformată din Dindeşti Az érdengelegi református templom The Calvinist church of Dindeşti 37
