Getting to religious places was always a split opinion when you think of the tourists' preferences when exploring a new place, but I think we can all agree that it's hard to pass next to some buildings without turning your head and wanting to find more about them.

Along with our short trip visiting all you can see while you are in Sighisoara, we couldn't miss the chance to also get in one of those religious places which are going to save their special place in your heart and mind even if you are not going to come here again anytime soon.
And not for a few times, I heard that Romania, and especially the people who are living in this country, no matter if they are Romanians, Hungarians or Saxons, they have a special faith and connection with God.
Hence why it's hard to believe that you can drive or walk more than 5 minutes in a city and not meet a church even if it's Orthodox or not.
Personally, I've grew up amongst grandparents and parents who always took care of I and my sister to realize how important is to maintain a connection with God during your whole life and not only when you need something or when you are fighting with an illness.
I won't try to discuss too much about this subject as I know both religion and politics are some of the most sensitive subjects someone can open because we all have different thoughts about these domains, which I am totally fine with because that's what makes us different, but I really want to share this location we have visited, even if just from the outside.

So, we were actually just finishing up checking out the towers Sighisoara still has for the tourists and people interested in history, when we noticed the church from the top of one of them we climbed to take some pictures, called Turnul Cizmarilor that right now it serves as the local radio station of the city.

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The pictures from above are, literally, the views we could get from up there.
A marvellous church which is so different from what we usually see in Romania but which caught our attention with the tower that seemed like being able to touch the sky, and the narrow paths between the houses where each of these was leading you somewhere.

Actually, you can see half of a tower that we visited previously, but also the The Church on the Hill that made the subject of a previous post and which was a great way to find a little bit more about how Sighisoara was formed and what it's been through ever since.

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However, before approaching the church, we decided to stop for a while and sit on a bench because we were already seeing a lot of things before which kind of made us feel tired but also like we were always on a rush, stuck with the eyes on the GPS following the route to the next sightseeing attraction instead of just looking around us and enjoy the whole journey.

Personally, I kind of get into this situation every time I'm travelling because I'm so focused on seeing so many things in a short time and I always end up with my eyes only on the GPS and seeing just the destinations instead of rejoicing the entire process.

So, after we slowed a bit the journey and followed up and down a few stairs to see where they are leading to, as well as getting a new view over Sighisoara, we finally got closer to the place that caught our attention which we found about that is called St. Joseph and that it's a Roman Catholic Church dating since 1894.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church represents one of the very few religious places from this part of Transylvania that was built by Hungarians, while the others have a history that was mostly dominated by Saxons or Romanians, and it was raised on the place that once was occupied by a monastery for Franciscan nuns.
Neither this church managed to stay away from a fire, even if it wasn't existing when the one from 1676 occurred and that took down a lot of important historical monuments from Sighisoara, which, today, are only remakes after the original ones, Catedrala Sf. Iosif also became part of a fire that was started in 1983 and came with a lot of damages for the things you could find inside the religious place.

That's how, everything you are going to see inside these days, is most likely procured after the fire, the pipe organ being bought from a Saxon Church that it's still working after more than 110 years since it was built.

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Unfortunately, we weren't able to enter the church even if we wanted to, because there was some sort of religious service going on, but we were really surprised to find out that what we were seeing from this side was just a little part of the church which has a total length of 30 meters and it's no less impressive from the other sides too. 😃

Anyway, we didn't stop enjoying what we were seeing even if we didn't discover this place entirely, because finding a building or church that follows an eclectic style of architecture is not a common thing in Romania.
Of course, there are some and I've seen a few others before this one, but it's not something that you will see every day, and especially that St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church comes with both Gothic and Neo-Roman elements that are mixing together really well along with the very tall belfry which is almost twice higher than the rest of the building.
All these details are something rather common in Italy because over there you are perhaps more appropriate to find this kind of buildings, but until I get to visit Italy and convince myself, I'll still say that it's maybe one of the most beautiful and uncommon churches I've seen so far. 😁
However, even if it's not dating for so long if we compare it with other religious places from Sighisoara, the church was raised on the place where in the Middle Ages there was a monastery belonging to the Dominican sisters, and then, after the Reformation from 1723, it became part of the Franciscan brothers.

These only got to enjoy owning the church until 1894 when there was an order to have this demolished and created the current one that we can see in the 21st century, called St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church.

Unfortunately, the church couldn't feel relieved as the fire from 1983 destroyed almost everything, having only the two altars, baptismal font and picture frames which were left intact and can be seen inside of the religious place.

Nevertheless, the history and the past of a place is just something to make you feel closer to that location even if you are standing in front of it, and that's how, the St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church manages to gather together a lot of Catholics that do feel a traditional ambiance and a modern connection with the world Catholicism at the same time.

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The full address of the St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church is Str. Zidul Cetății, Sighișoara 545400, and you can either reach it by getting into the center of the city or if you follow the trail of the nine towers that are still standing still and which are surrounding the fortress, where, a part of its enclosure wall is linked to this religious place.

SEE YOU IN THE NEXT TRIP! 🗾

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