Bârsana

Bârsana
Commune
Bârsana Monastery
Bârsana Commune in Maramureş County
Bârsana within Romania
Bârsana
Bârsana within Romania
Coordinates: 47°48′54″N 24°03′35″E / 47.81500°N 24.05972°E / 47.81500; 24.05972Coordinates: 47°48′54″N 24°03′35″E / 47.81500°N 24.05972°E / 47.81500; 24.05972
Country  Romania
County Maramureș County
Commune Bârsana
Historic region Transylvania
Component villages Bârsana, Nănești
Government
  Mayor Teodor Ștefanca (since 2016) (Social Democratic Party)
Area
  Total 68.73 km2 (26.54 sq mi)
Population (2011)
  Total 4,474
Postal code 437035 - Bârsana
437036 - Nănești
Website (in Romanian) www.primaria-barsana.ro

Bârsana (Hungarian: Barcánfalva) is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Bârsana and Nănești (Nánfalva). It also included Oncești village until 2004, when it was split off to form a separate commune. As of 2002, Bârsana had 6,352 inhabitants, all but ten of whom were ethnic Romanians. 86.7% were Romanian Orthodox, 7.8% Greek-Catholic and 3.1% Pentecostal.

Bârsana's Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple is one of eight Wooden Churches of Maramureș listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, another wooden monastery was built in Bârsana.

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