Exploring a 200-Year-Old Abandoned Church Hidden Deep in the Romanian Woods - No Roads, Only Mystery

[@vierkazipajova6294]

It' s beautiful.

[@TheDarkPirateStories]

@@vierkazipajova6294 dakujeme velmi pekne, Vierka :)

[@Orthodoxy4Life]

I have a feeling this may be an Eastern Catholic Church.

[@ApophaticTheosis]

Yep, the Sacred heart painting gives it away.

[@TheDarkPirateStories]

@@ApophaticTheosis You are right, guys. It is located in Romania, a southeastern European country. Thanks for watching.

[@eliasn.477]

Not necessarily . Those images travelled because they were cheap and numerous, the peasants didn’t see them as confessional. We’d know whether this was a Greek Catholic Church if we knew its location because the GC and the Orthodox confesssions had a clear geographical distribution. My hunch , based on architecture and landscape is that this is well out of the GC heartland.

[@Orthodoxy4Life]

@@eliasn.477 In all honesty I’m pretty sure it’s an Eastern Catholic Church. The interior looks Catholic from the style of the Art used. The iconography is not Byzantine iconography used in the Orthodox Church. And the sacred heart is not something you will find in an Orthodox Church unless by pure accident. I go to a Romanian Orthodox Church and the Church in this video doesn’t look very similar. Part of the reason it may have been is because there was a community of Eastern Catholics and there was only Orthodox Churches nearby.

[@eliasn.477]

@ Im a Transylvanian from the western slopes of the mountains in which the church is , have had a lifelong exposure to Transylvanian vernacular church architecture so I’m pretty confident too. People ( my family included) almost only had western style lithographs and cheap mass produced Italian or Austro-Hungarian iconography in their home. Without ever having been GC . It’s been the case until the early nineties. Now everything is more heavily byzantinized.

[@eliasn.477]

În ce judet/comunà? Hunedoara ?!