The fortified - today Evangelical - church (1493-1496, built at the time the Turkish invasions) is guarded by a nearly 10-m isolated tower on the northern side, erected in 1832, also for defense purposes. In its upper part it resembles the Clock Tower of Sighisoara.
The present construction lies on the ruins of a Roman church from which only a few sculpted pieces were preserved, as well as capitals and consoles serving as supports for the flower vases on the altar. The very sanctuary has been turned into a fortress, the building looking like a massive, proud block with a one-piece roof, with no difference between the nave and the choir, and a genuine network of beams on the inside that support it, and with no western tower.
The earthquakes of 1977, 1986, and 1990 affected both the tower and the church.
