Saint Bartholomew Church
The parochial church of the “Ancient Brasov”, located near Sprenghi hill, with the medieval stronghold of refuge, has been rebuilt in the actual form, after the Tartar invasion of 1241, being therefore the oldest historical monument of the town. The monument adapts the early Gothic architectonic program of the establishments pertaining to the monastic order of the Cistercians monks to a parochial church; it has a basilica-like plan with three aisles in connected system, transept and choir with polygonal apse, towered by the chapels of rectangular plan. The sanctuary and its extensions constitute the authentic part of the monument, characterized by the narrow windows in broken arch surmounted by circular poly-lobe rosaries and by the carved stone specific to the Cistercian architecture. Outside, the cornice conserves a continuous frieze of blind arcades on consoles, an architectural motive of an older Romanic tradition.
The destructions caused by the ottoman attacks of 1421 and 1438 determined the vaults of the aisles and the transept to be rebuilt; the actual aspect of the church also is tributary to the reconstruction works carried on in 1634-1663.
On the western side of the basilica-like corpus there were designed two towers, of which only the south-western one has been accomplished, dating back in its actual form since 1842.
The parochial house was erected in neo-Gothic style in 1905.
The distance from Saint Bartholomew Church, located at the outskirts of the „Old Town” or „Braşovechi”, until „Braşov's Stronhold” is covered by Lungă Street, the main road of the historical suburb, which used to open in the Middle Age the commercial road of the town towards Moldavia. The street is bordered by historical buildings dating back to the XVIII-XXth centuries, which reflect the rural character of the suburb, such as the traditional houses, with the narrow front towards the street and the construction year marked on the triangular fronton (no. 180, 1785). Some of the constructions have the facades redecorated in fashionable occidental styles with Baroque motives (de Mijloc street 28, 1805-1811) or rococo (Lungă street 58, 1795), while others were completely rebuilt around 1900 or later.
On Bisericii Române Street, which crosses Lunga Street, there is the orthodox church “The Assumption of Virgin Mary” (1783), which illustrates the most widespread typology of the Romanian religious architecture of the south of Transylvania, which combines the planimetry of the cult area specific to the orthodoxy with decorative elements of the facades of Baroque origin and the mural paintings of post-Brancoveanu tradition.
The Opera Braşov, founded in 1953 as Musical Theatre, functions inside the building erected between 1936-1938 in neo-Romanian style, following the initiative of Junii Braşovecheni Society, as a communitarian house.
Saint Martin Church dominates the crossroads of Lunga street and de Mijloc street. The first documentary attestation dates back to 1225, the church being rebuilt after the ottoman invasion of 1421, during the period 1442-1447 and expanded between 1795 and 1796.