1930 Costești wooden church fire

Quand

18 avr. 1930

Type

Incendie

Coordonnées

44.67° N, 24.88° E

Description

1930 fire in Romania

1930 fire in Romania

In 1930, a devastating fire destroyed the wooden church in Costești, AD, a small town in Argeș County, Romania, and killed 118 people, mostly primary school and high school students, the youngest of them being an 8-year-old girl. The event was also known in Romanian press as the Black Easter.

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