Timisoara City (Churches)

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Banat

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Banat was built after the designs of the architect Ioan TRAIANESCU between 1936 and 1946. Located in one of Timisoara's most frequented sites, the Cathedral, which has a capacity of over 4,000 people, faces the large and slightly Victoria Square: at the northern end of the Square, there stands the marble palace of the National Theatre and the National Opera House - in front of which took place the dramatic stream of events of the December 1989. "Revolution" that started in Timisoara and eventually led to the abolition of the communist dictatorship in Romania
















St. Ilie Orthodox Church

The first cult dwelling of Fabric district was St. George church, from Piaţa Traian, built in 1745. Until 1873 it was a common dwelling for the Romanian
and Serbian pious but that year, due to the jarring, they got to a long trial. According to the verdict from 1901, the Serbian community came off victorious.
The Romanian pious from Piaţa Traian frequent the St. Ilie church from Fabric, built amid 1825-1826. In 1910 the town hall had as a plan the construction
 of an electric turbine and the lay-out of the river Bega's course. Thanks to these workings the Parochial Committee accepts the demolition of the
church and the construction of a new edifice in Piaţa Morii. In the place of the old church, on the right side of the Bega, there is a cross with
the inscription: This cross was put here in 1928 in the place of the altar of the Romanian Orthodox church, demolished in 1913.





Millenium Church

The greatest Catholics church from Timisoara. It was build between 1896 -1901, with the purpose of comemorating a millenium since the settlement
of Hungarians on there regions, It is the second dwelling of Romano-Catholic cult of the parish from the Fabric district. The old church built around
1726 is near by the beer factory.At the inauguration of the new church the old one was given to the Greco-Catholic parish's community, community wich
at that time didn't dispose of a church worthy to their cult. The Millenium church of great dimensions was constructed in Neo-Romanic and Neo-Gothic
Styles after the plans of Ybl. Lajos.The towers are 65 and the central dome 45m high. The church can host around 300 christians. The greater bell weights
2420 kg.The organ was realized by Leopold Wegenstein.

Elisabetin Romano-Catholic Church

The Most Holy hearth of Jesus is the Romano-Catholic church of the Elisabetin district. It was built in 1919, in Gothic style, following the plans of the architect Karl Salkovics. The church is administered by the Salvatorian monks, a relatively young order founded in 1881 in Austria.


















The Church of the nuns belonging to the Notre-Dame order

In 1864 were brought to Timişoara the first nuns of the Sorores Pauperes de Nostra Domina. The first monastery and first school (today the Lyceum squarely to the Banatului Museum) were opened in the Cetate district. The imposing building had 72 rooms and a chapel.
in 1881 were the new monastery and the school opened, and the church of the monastery was built in 1894, in Neo-Romanic style, on the nuns 'expense. The main and the lateral altars were framed by the Tyrolese sculptor, Ferdinand Stufflesser. The church has served and serves even today mainly the Order of the Nuns of Notre-Dame, the masses being celebrated in German and in every Sunday in Bulgarian as well. In 1948 the order had more than 400 nuns, but in 1948 the order was abolished and their properties were confiscated.
In those buildings operate the Bănăţean College, the Sârbesc Lyceum and the Home of the Students.The majority of the nuns have left abroad. After 50 years of Communism, in 1992, the Notre-Dame Order from Timişoara was reestablished and the nuns returned to the town.



Piarist Church

It is the church of the Piarist monks' order, monks who came to Timişoara in 1788 and received the church of the Franciscan monks and the Saint Ioan Nepomuc Church built between 1733-1736 in the place of an old mosque, which was constructed on a medieval Catholic church.
The Piarists built in 1909 a new church and a school. The old church was overtaken by the municipality and demolished in 1911, from its crypt being moved 261 skeletons. It was identified the tomb of Johanna von Honrath, the wife of Karl Grath, the commander of the fortress. Johanna von Grath was the first love of Beethoven. This church has neo-Byzantine, Hungarian and Baroque elements from the old Franciscan church. The Piarists continued to hustle after 1948 as well, because it was considered the students' church. Here lived and died in 2005 the country's last Piarist, P. Francisc Valo O. Sch. P. Since then the church has been overtaken by the priests of the Romano-Catholic Gherhardinum Theological Lyceum.


Saint Joseph Romano-Catholic Church

The Saint Joseph ecclesiastical church from the Fratelia district was built in a Neogothic style in 1926-1928. In the tower there is a modern timepiece, a gift from Vienna. The masses are held in Hungarian, German and Romanian.



















Saint Ecaterina Church

The church is the successor of the medieval church, dedicated to the same patron saint. In the medieval church's crypt was buried in the 13th century the wife of King Carol Robert de Anjou, Maria Ecaterina, who died in the period when the court of Hungary's kings was Timişoara. The church was the property of the Reformed Franciscan monks from the Sanctissimi Salvatoris province, who in the 18th century also possessed a monastery besides the church. Due to the construction of the fortress, around 1723 the church was demolished.
The monks were moved in the center of the town, on the present Bolyai Street, where between 1753-1756 a church was built in the place of a former mill. In place of the demolished church in 1763 an obelisk was built in remembrance of the personalities buried there. Once the street was widened, around 1935, the obelisk was moved in the cemetery from Calea Lipovei, but since then nothing has been known of the graves. The new church was built in a pure Baroque style, containing several cult objects from the old church.
Between 1887 and1889 the church was reconstructed, this time in a neoclassic style, but preserving several Baroque elements.

The Serb Orthodox Church

The church situated in the Fabric district was built in 1746. The construction was made of brick, in shape of a visible cross both in the exterior and interior. The tower is attached to the Western facade of the building, being built on 4 solid columns; columns that form a beautiful open porch. The altar screen was effectuated in the second half of the 18th century. The church has a collection of 100 cult books written in Slav and a few in Greek in the 18th-19th centuries.