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THE REFORMED CHURCH (ART RELIC)
The first and oldest stone building of the village is the reformed church. Already back in Arpadian times it has been a place with a church, however although it is mentioned only in the so-called papal decimal list from the years 1332-37. We know that in these years the church bore the name of All Saints and its priest was called Dömötr. The present church may have been built in the 14.th or the 15.th century in the prevailing gothic style.
What the original church may have looked like is indicated on the map if the cleric Lázár, made before the battle of Mohács but published only in 1528. Here our church is represented as a fortified, circumvalled building having a tower with embrasures. The fortified character is already indicated in a document going back to 1461.
The church ha been destroyed in 1596 by the Crimean Tartar allies of the Turks, who devastated the countryside. It has been restored to some extent by the returning elements of the population, but not in its oroginal form. Only a thatched roof has been made, and the destroyed tower has been replaced by a wooden bell-stand.
The rebuilding of our church into its present form of Baroque caharcter has begun in 1856 and ha been completed only in 1887.
The foundations of the new church-tower have been laid on 18, September 1856, where the local ladowner and his wife were also present. A document ha been immured, giving a detailed description of the then prevailling circumstances, together woth a bottle of wine and specimens of the coins in circulation. The gold and the silver coins have been provided by count László Vay.
The renovation of 1975 brought to light several relics of gothic architecture, which are now visible. Let us mention the insignia, on a corner stone, of the mason's guild of the builders.
A cemetery belonged to the church on the south side. It was used until 1787. Oue ancestors have been buried with their feet pointing eastwards. This custom, going back to pagan times, has been preserved virtually until the present day.
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