Church on the Hill (Cluj-Napoca)

In the late 18th century, several wealthy Aromanian families lived in Cluj; the nearest Orthodox church, which they attended only on major holidays, was located in Someșeni.

Thus, in 1788, two merchants petitioned count Ádám Teleki, royal commissioner of Joseph II in the Principality of Transylvania, asking permission to build an Orthodox church inside the city.

The vestibule is rectangular, the nave octagonal, the choir narrow; the altar is semicircular in the interior and polygonal in the exterior.

The iconostasis was painted in 1796 by the well known Constantin the Painter, a deacon from Șcheii Brașovului and sent as a gift by the merchants of Brașov.

Several intellectuals of the interwar period were parishioners, including Victor Papilian, Lucian Blaga and Dumitru D. Roșca.