Ecclesiastical Collections III
Sárospatak Museum of the Calvinist Church west of the River Tisza
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The balanced and calm mass of the one-storey Berna row housing the museum is situated in the courtyard of the Calvinist College. Today a listed building, it represents a style called Protestant College Baroque. A ridge turret rises from the middle of the gabled roof, where the small bell of the Csengettyű row has been placed. The bell is sounded whenever a student of the Sárospatak Calvinist College dies anywhere in the world. The Sárospatak Calvinist College Scientific Collection and Museum employs one full-time expert and a part-time colleague who together look after the collection and see to the daily tasks in Sárospatak as well as its branch, the Bible Museum in Gönc. In the area of the Calvinist diocese west of the river Tisza the majority and the best quality objects of Calvinist ecclesiastical art have been preserved, most of them having been designated protected by the Museum of Applied Arts between 1947 and 1970. A significant part of these artefacts is held by the Sárospatak Museum.