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:::That's your opinion, and may be legally correct, but many people do believe that the Orthodox Church is somehow the national church of Romania. I agree that the main function of a church is to be a place of worship, but churches (and other religious buildings and monuments) often serve as historic and cultural, and political landmarks (just like statues, plaques, streetnames etc). I mean, look at Alba Iulia: the first thing the Romanian government did after 1920 there was to erect a huge Orthodox cathedral next to the Catholic one, with a somewhat higher tower.:) Do you seriously believe this had no symbolic meaning? Nationalism and religion are often entangled, unfortunately. In many cases, the intention of church-builders is no doubt good; but in many other cases, they seem to be primarily interested in artificially changing the cultural landscape of Transylvania. That said, I also believe that this picture is not really suitable for this article: it illustrates only one aspect (and probably not the most important) of Romanianization.--[[User:Tamas|Tamas]] 00:20, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
::::You can find similar examples to Gyulafehérvár/Alba Iulia in very many places in Transylvania. Eg. in Marosvásárhely/Targu Mures the town center is completely dominated by a huge Romanian church built in the 1920s. In that time period Romanians were a relatively small minority in the town. Of course, this building could not have been "erected" without the active support of the government. --[[User:KIDB|KIDB]] 07:58, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
I do not really want to argue, the picture speaks for itself. By the way, Bogdan, a photo can not be a POW, only the interpretation of the photo. The interpretation is: '''SOME''' ethnic Romanians (whatever their religion is) do not respect and have not respected the historical heritage of middle-age Transylvania, rather they would like to hide it. This is one aspect of the Romanianization of Transylvania and goes parallel with other actions, like assimilating of the Saxonian and Hungarian minorities. KIDB
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