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Calvinist Church

TIME : 2016/2/18 20:14:02

The interior of the Calvinist church, on a small hill just north of Báthory István utca, is refreshingly plain and its long lancet windows, which flood the nave with light, accentuate the church’s masterpiece – the ribbed vaulted ceiling. István Báthory’s remains lie in a marble tomb at the back of the church; the family’s coat of arms embellished with wyverns (dragonlike creatures) is on top of the tomb. The 17th-century wooden bell tower, standing apart from the church (as was once required of Calvinists in this Catholic country), has a Gothic roof with four little turrets.