thumb|300px |Densuș church – view from the north
The Densuș Church (also known as St Nicholas' Church) in the village of Densuș, Hunedoara County is the oldest orthodox stone church in Romania. Up to the 15th century it was part of a court of the local knezial family.
The building
The church has a stone tower above the naos. The altar, nave, and diaconicon were built in the same period while the side chapel is a later addition. Inside the church there are 15th-century mural paintings that show Jesus wearing Romanian traditional clothes. These paintings were made by artist Ștefan. In the 18th century more paintings were added by Simion de Pitești and his apprentices.
From 1566 to the end of the 19th century the building functioned as a Calvinist church, too. Because of this, the paintings were lime-whited in the 16th century and its belltower has a Hungarian inscription from 1782.
The church nave is square with 1 m thick walls and a perimeter of 7.40 m x 7.25 m. In the middle of the naos there are 4 pillars delimiting another square area with 3 meters sides. The 3 meters long altar is semi-circular, the positioning of the altar table suggests the iconostasis initially had two entrances. The building itself is made from various Roman ruins materials: columns posts and pedestals, limestone blocks, marble blocks, tiles and terra cotta pipes, bound by raw stone and sometimes bricks, and on the roof were placed two lion statues. Such details like the lion statues or columns attached to the exterior wall do not seem to have any structural utility.
Hypothesis about Densuș
thumb|Worn out inscription incorporated in the wall
Archaeological work was done on the area outside the church, researchers unanimously pointing the building did not disturb any of the graves. Since the oldest finding was a coin from the time of Sigismund of Luxemburg (14th-15th century), these two facts led to the conclusion that the current church was built just earlier than that.