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Bârsana (Hungarian: Barcánfalva) is a commune in Maramureş County, Romania. As of 2002, it had 6,352 inhabitants, all but ten of whom were ethnic Romanians. 86.7% were Romanian Orthodox, 7.8% Greek-Catholic and 3.1% Pentecostal.
Bârsana's historic Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple is one of eight Wooden Churches of Maramureş listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, another wooden monastery was built in Bârsana.
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Coordinates: 47°48′54″N 24°03′35″E / 47.815°N 24.05972°E / 47.815; 24.05972
