Cornetu Parish is located in Sălcuţa village, Titu city, Dâmbovița county, a village documented for the first time in 1766. Near Sălcuţa there were later incorporated villages, including Cornetu, attested in 1645 and 1723. Its name comes from a forest deforested around the middle of the 20th century.
The church in Salcuta, dedicated to St. Nicolae, is an old building, probably 250-300 years old. There is no exact data on the year of construction or the founder, and the church is made of wood on a brick foundation, with a galvanized tin roof. The Holy Table is made of oak, and the bell tower, separate, is built of wood and plank.
The church is located north of the village, between the old roads, being built on the land of a former tenant, Pavel Băică, possibly the founder. In 1938, it was repaired with contributions from the parishioners and equipped with a new belfry and a donated bell.
From the archive of the Hungarian-Wallachian Metropolis, file no. 1691, pages 261-262 we find the following: in 1835, Sălcuţa was part of the middle net, with the wooden church dedicated to St. Nicolae, priest Stoica serving. In 1841 the Sălcuţa church is on a hereditary estate with 111 families, priest Stoica died on January 4, 1842. In the year 1853 the Sălcuţa church is on a hereditary property with 100 families, the hamlets of Spălăturile and Cornetu also worshiped at the church in Sălcuţa. In 1862, the Sălcuţa church served the hamlet of Cornetu with 84 families and the village of Spălăturile with 44 families, all going to the same church.
In 1870, it was no longer called Cornetu or Sălcuta but Spălăturile with 128 families, priest servants Hristea the priest and Toma Ionescu. In 1875 it appears again with the name of Sălcuţa (Cornetu) with 80 servant families Hristea ordained in 1853 and Toma ordained in 1858. In 1893 according to the data of the Dâmboviţa county archpriest, com. Cornetu, Sălcuţa hamlet, the branch church with 2 families, a church built by the parishioners and repaired in 1832 also by the parishioners, has as a minister priest Toma Ionescu, who died in 1900. Priest ministers followed in turn priest Stan, priest Ioan, priest Lucian from Boteni-Dâmboviţa and priest Constantin Mihăilescu".
The church has the shape of an ark, without interior paintings, but decorated with icons. The belfry is built of wall and metal pipe, and the bell weighs 120 kg.
In the village of Sălcuta there is a military cemetery of honor, where approximately 100 Romanian and foreign soldiers who fell in the battle of Argeș in 1916 are buried. The land was donated in 1917 by Ecaterina Emil Ghica.
Source: Micro Cornet by George Vlăsceanu
