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2589 ROMANIA (Bihor) - The Church with Moon in Oradea

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The Church with Moon (Biserica cu Lună), known also as the Assumption Cathedral, is an Orthodox Christian church built between 1784 and 1790 in late Baroque style, by the architect: Éder Jakab. It was so named due to a clock mechanism unique in Europe, located on the church steeple, which aims to constantly rotate a sphere with a diameter of 1m, painted half black and half gold. This sphere imitate the rotary motion of the Moon around the Earth and show all phases of the Moon.

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