Romanian memories from Sfântu Gheorghe

 Visitors are able to relive the Romanian past of Sfântu Gheorghe at the top of the former Baromhegy - today's Váradi József Street - where the building of the town's first Romanian school and the Church of Saint George form a unit. 

The school building is the oldest, but even the first written records from 1799 testify to the turbulent past of the Orthodox denominational school. However, the quality of education in the school is reflected in the fact that not only Orthodox but also Roman Catholic and Reformed students were welcomed. The building functioned as an educational institution before the year 1873, and until the turn of the millennium had a variety of very different roles. Following a general renovation work in the early 2000s, its rooms have been restored to their original form and now serve as the exhibition space of the National Museum of the Eastern Carpathians. Visitors can see classrooms rebuilt according to the original models and school standards, showing the conditions of the early 19th century, as well as a very special room furnished as a teacher's residence.

The stone church, built in 1872 around the ruins of a wooden church built around 1810, is now a monument, and its survival is a testimony to the tolerant atmosphere in the capital of Covasna County. 

Samu Csinta