POIANA Brașov has a wooden church built in the regional Maramureș style.
Made entirely from wood, the churches were erected from the 1500s onwards in response to a ban by the Catholic Habsburgs on using stone to build new Eastern Orthodox churches.
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| Maramureș churches usually emphasise height |
The example at Poiana Brașov is dedicated to St John the Baptist (Ioan Botezătorul in Romanian).
From the outside it looks interesting but somewhat plain - inside it is anything but plain.
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| Small but beautiful |
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