 Located on Horea Street, it was built based on the plans of Izidor Hegner, an engineer, between 1886 and 1887.Seriously affected after attacks by the Iron Guard on September 13, 1927, it was soon rebuilt by the Romanian government.In the period following the Second Vienna Award, when Northern Transylvania was taken by Hungary, it witnessed the Jews' deportation to Nazi extermination camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and was damaged by the bombardments of the neighbouring railway station, on June 2, 1944.