Cehu Silvaniei (Hungarian: Szilágycseh) is a town in Sălaj County, Crișana, Romania.
Four villages are administered by the town: Horoatu Cehului (Oláhhorvát), Motiș (Mutos), Nadiș (Szilágynádasd), and Ulciug (Völcsök).
In 1918, during the disintegration of the empire at the end of World War I, the city became part of the Kingdom of Romania.
In 1968, during the country's administrative reorganization, it acquired city status and then industrialization take place (textiles, furniture).
[3] At the same census, 47% were Romanian Orthodox, 44.4% Reformed, 3.5% Roman Catholic, 2.4% belonged to "another religion", and 1% Baptist.
[5] Probably members of two families, Miklós Drágffy and his wife, and Eufémia Jakcs or their son, Bertalan, later voivod of Transylvania (1493–98) built the church somewhere in the middle of the second half of the 15th century.
In 1614, due to the generosity of Prépostváry Zsigmond and his wife Széchy Katalin, the rules of the market-town then, the tower at the western façade is built, as shown by the escutcheoned memorial tablet on its southern wall.
The 19th and 20th century marble, granite, sandstone, and limestone boulders, flat and shaped, smoothed and inscribed, carved relief decorated gravestones have Hebrew inscriptions.
Current care involves occasional clearing or cleaning of the cemetery by unpaid individuals.