Gherla lies by the river Kis-Szamos between Cluj and Dej. It can be aproached from Cluj on road E576, on railway on line 410 (Cluj - Dej). The number of habitants is 24 080, from wich approx. 4700 are Hungarians. As religion is concerned: 2895 are reformed, 1000 are roman catholic, 150 are armenian catholic and 700 are of other denomination. The first medieval establishment is mentioned in 1291 with the name Gherlahida. The town is founded at the beginning of 18th century by the Armenians who came into Transilvania. The establishment is perhaps the only baroque structured town of Europe.
    Téka Cultural Foundation was established in 1993. . Its goal is to ensure institutions and to organized in a modern way the education and the cultural life of our town and region. The prime target group of our community-building programs is the youth. We support the creation of the obligation towards a community in a good sense.
     

Our institutions are :

Téka Cultural Centre, Mezoségi Téka Boarding School for the Diaspora, Mezoségi Ethnographical Museum, Mezoségi Camp Center from Felketlak, Regional House from Feketelak in houses o fon proprety, lot (on approx. 12000sq.meter surface). These all together form the Téka Educational and Cultural Center.

      Our projects are:

 Mezoségi Cultural Centre, Mezoségi Boarding School, Tóvidék Project (Common Treasure Round table, Camp Center, Regional House, Tóvidék Union), Ethnographical Museum (Gherla), Bureau For Counseling in Choosing a Career, project for Continuous learning (courses for adults, organization of accredited further training courses) point e-Transylvania, running a Digital workshop.
  

 Within the Téka Foundation from Gherla is functioning the boarding school for diaspora, which offers housing, meals, educational programs and possibility to learn in their mother language for children and youth grades 1 - 12 from Mezoség and Szamoshát. The target group supported by the institution is mainly the socially disadvantaged children, who don't have the possibility to learn in their native village. Their number reached 90 in school year 2008 - 2009. we ensure for the children enclosed int he program the following>

* Housing and meals int he boarding school (five meals a  day)
* Learning in primary, secondary, hough and professional schools in their  mother tongue, programs to prepare for learning
* Health care, ensuring school instruments and instruments for cleaning clothes
* Organizing educational programs
* Transport to/from their parents at the weekend