Liviu, Marta - Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Andrid. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2011)
Irina - Iriny
tocracy of the county”, officials with more or less important positions (vice-comes, noble judge etc.) in the administrative center. The village population in the pre-modern period was, according to available sources, mostly Hungarian and of Calvinist confession. For a short time, at the half of the eighteenth century, the owner family of Irinyi embraced the Roman Catholic confession, causing a temporary mass shift of the village residents to the Catholic confession. During the nineteenth century, those who stayed faithful to the Catholic Church, built a chapel with the support noble land-owner. A small Romanian community lived in the village at the end of the eighteenth century, too small to build a church or support a parish. On a foundation which probably dated from the fifteenth century, the Irinyi family built in 1892, an imposing manorhouse, the economic center of Irina estate. Still standing today, the building of the manor-house has one level and it follows a rectangular plan, with a tower of similar forms, added to the corner, and rising a level above the building. The windows were probably all semicircular, today retaining only a small part of their former shape. Currently, the manor-house serves as a primary school. The Calvinist Church. In 1752, the few Protestant families that remained after the massive change of the village rite, built a small wooden church. The present church, built of brick structure between 1804-1807, is on the place of the former wooden church. Only two decades after the building it required repairs due to the earthquakes that shook the area around 1830. The Clock tower, built into the ship, was built between 1858 and 1860. The nave with semicircular closing was fit with buttresses and provided with minimal decorations. The gable has more decorations and the tower was fit with plaster-made prominent cornices. The entrance door on the same faţade is opened according to the tower struc-Biserica reformată din Irina Az irinyi református templom The Calvinist church of Irina 41
