Reghin Fortified Church

The beautiful church of Reghin is one of the most significant buildings of the city and was built as a Catholic church in the year 1330 and dedicated to Saint Mary. The inscription that proves this fact is the oldest majuscule inscription in the entire region of Transylvania. The church became Evangelic Lutheran in 1551 in the course of the Lutheran Reformation. In the following years the church was victim to a number of severe strokes of fate: during a revolt in the year 1708 a huge fire ruined the entire church, the parish house and the surrounding fortification.