Bârsana

Not to be confused with Barsana in India.

For the village in Alba County, see Şugag.

Bârsana
Commune
Bârsana Monastery
Bârsana within Romania
Bârsana Bârsana within Romania
Coordinates:
Country	Romania
County	Maramureş County
Commune	Bârsana
Historic region	Transylvania
Component villages	Bârsana, Nănești
Government
• Mayor	Petru Cudrici (since 2004) (Partidul Naţional Liberal)
Area
• Total	68,73 km2 (2,654 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Total	6,352
Postal code	437035 - Bârsana 437036 - Nănești
Website	(Romanian) www.primaria-barsana.ro

Bârsana (Hungarian: Barcánfalva) is a commune in Maramureş County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Bârsana and Nănești (Nánfalva). It also included Onceşti village until 2004, when it was split off to form a separate commune. As of 2002, Bârsana 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 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.