Gál Judit: Adatok a váci ortodox keresztény közösség történetéhez - Váci levéltári füzetek 2. (Vác, 2010)

Név- és helynévmutató

Data concerning the Orthodox Church in Vác (p. 108; 237)

Nasto Mancsuka, who died in 1793, left his house and plot on the main square to the orthodox community. On the rear side of the plot they built the Ortodox church and the priest's house, while the apartments in the house on the main square were rented out to tenants.

By the second half of the 19th century, only a few people belonged to the Orthodox community. The church was sold to the city in 1963 (today it is the property of the Pest County local government). The rest of the real estate properties (buildings, fields) became state owned in 1975.

Some of the fittings of the church have survived to this day and are mostly located in the Serbian Church Museum in Szentendre.

The old Orthodox cemetery ("Greek calvary" by its old name) - though in the land register always an independent unit - was on the territory of the so-called Middle-City Cemetery, eliminated in 2005-2006. The Orthodox tombstones with Greek, Slavic and Hungarian inscriptions were almost all destroyed in the procedure. In the same period, numerous human remains were exhumed in the Orthodox part of the cemetery as well.

All the graves with coffins were turned East, that is, according to orthodox custom, the deceased were buried facing the East. The burial complements were often rosaries, small medals or crosses around the necks. In the graves, outside the coffins, small bottles and coins were found. The remains of the couple Cvian were placed in the coffin in identical white nightgowns. On Stefan's chest, there was a piece of heavy iron; around the neck of each there was a linen bag full of roots (that is, presumably, seeds or flowers).

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