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Reformed Church, Nușfalău

church building in Nușfalău, Romania

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7307469 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Reformed Church (Romanian: Biserica Reformată; Hungarian: Református templom) is a church in Nuşfalău, Romania, built in the 15th century.

It is listed as a historic monument.

Editorial summary

“Reformed Church, Nușfalău” enters the record as church building in Nușfalău, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Reformed, Church and Nușfalău can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 27-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1401-01-17. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Reformed, Church and Nușfalău.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Reformed Church, Nușfalău” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Reformed, Church and Nușfalău provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7307469. Authority coordinates are 47.208, 22.914. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Reformed Church, Nușfalău”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Reformed Church, Nușfalău primary sources, Reformed Church, Nușfalău archive and Reformed research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Reformed Church, Nușfalău”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Reformed Church, Nușfalău” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.