The monastery-church was built by the Gyerőfi family in the second half of the 13th century.

A single nave is hidden behind the facade with two towers. Flat wall pillars with articulated capitals on the west side bare wittness to the existence of the former lord's loft. The coupled windows of the finished northern tower are of excuisite quality, with dragons on the middle-column on the west side.

There are three reliefs in the wall of the southern (uncompleted) tower. Two lions on the middle one, St. Michael on the right one, and on the left, a woman of Hungarian stature breast-feeding two snakes. The latter is unique in the Hungarian Romanesque sculpture. Contrary to the walled up southern entry and the gate under the tower on the inside, the outer door is decorated with a tympanum baring a cross and ornamental leafs.

Source: Entz Géza: Erdély építeszete a 11-13. században (Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület, 1994)