Located on Strada Gheorghe Şincai no. 26, on the site of a building destroyed by fire in 1758 and demolished in 1779, the monastery was built by the monks of the Piarist order, an old Roman Catholic monastic order. Started in 1781, the construction was completed in 1787, according to the inscription on the facade of the current "Holy Trinity" Catholic Church.
The church was built in Viennese Baroque style. The Imperial Court from Vienna wanted to strengthen Catholicism in Transylvania through this construction. Next to the church, the Piarist School building was built, on the site of an old school established in 1717 and an old hospital, built by the Hospitaller order (previously belonging to the Dominican order). It is important to note that the old hospital was the second hospital in the country after the one in Sibiu and the first medieval hospital in the city. Both the hospital and the old school were destroyed in the fire of 1758.
Originally established in 1717, the Piaristi School operated in the new building until 1878. Rhetoric and grammar were studied here, the languages of instruction being German and Latin. Between 1772 and 1774, among others, Gheorghe Şincai, a corypheus of the Ardelene School, studied here, and later, between 1825 and 1832, before leaving for Blaj, the poet and revolutionary Andrei Mureșanu.
The street where the two buildings are located today is called Strada Gheorghe Şincai. In 1878, the building was bought by the Roman Catholic church, and the School of the Piarists operated here until 1879. Currently, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bistrita functions in a wing of the building.
The house on the west side of the building has on the main facade a relief with a religious theme, Mary with the Child, a reproduction of the miracle-working icon from Nicula.
Sursa: www.primariabistrita.ro
