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St. Catherine of Alexandria Church, Budapest

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taxpayer heads of families (the Orthodox Serbs numbered 461) but the canonical visitation in 1756 found more than 4000 Catholics in Tabán. Their number grew to almost 5000 in 1802. At first almost all of them were Illyrs (South Slavs) but German immigrants arrived in large numbers from the 1720s. In 1783 the Germans already outnumbered the Illyrs while the Hungarians and the Slovaks were still few in numbers. From the middle of the 18th century sermons were delivered in German and Illyric, and teaching in the parish school was also bilingual.
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The articulated cornice runs around the whole building. The entrance was protected by a porch which was finally demolished in 1960. The central bay and the tower has simple segmental arched windows. The facade is crowned by a Baroque gable articulated by four smaller pilasters, flanked by volutes and surmounted by a curved pediment. The second storey of the tower has Ionic pilasters and rectangular windows, while the belfry (third storey) has Corinthian pilasters and arched windows with balconets. Four
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ascending cross on the left. This group is flanked by two flaming vases. The large plaster statues on the sides of the altar depict the Apostles Peter and Paul. In 1910 a Neo-Baroque predella with two adoring angels was added to the altar which obstructed the lower part of the altarpiece; this was removed during the reconstruction in the 1950s. Two 18th-century angel statuettes, a statue of Our Lady of Sorrows, a crucifix and six candlesticks are sometimes displayed on the ledge of the altar.
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Baroque sacristy in 1896, the original approach was lost, stairs were added, and one of the parapet panels was converted to a door. The surface is painted light green imitating marble with gilt ornaments. Iconography: the Pentecost (central relief), laurel wreathes (parapet panels), wreathes and palm branches. The sculptural group on the top of the abat-voix is composed of putti among clouds holding a cross and an anchor.
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is the altar where the eucharist has been kept in a Neo-rococo tabernacle since the predella of the main altar was removed. Four candlesticks and two statues of angels in adoration are displayed on the ledge. The altarpiece is set in a concave frame decorated with gilded rosettes. The original painting was destroyed in the bombardment of 1849. The present altarpiece was painted by
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Budapest planned to build a new parish house, the project never came to fruition. A new sacristy was built on the west side of the church, and the parish office moved to different rented buildings nearby. The parish office was located at no. 6 Hadnagy utca from 1908 until 1938 when this building was also demolished due to urban redevelopment.
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the altar by Joseph Karl Schöfft depicts the Franciscan saint holding the Infant Jesus with a pair of children at his feet, holding an open book and a white lily stalk; two angels in the sky are carrying a wreath. A modern painting of Saint Francis was set in the pediment in the 1980s replacing the original image of the Virgin Mary.
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has a solid convex parapet. There is a small chapel on the ground floor of the tower which is connected to the narthex. Every bay has segmental arched windows on both sides while the chancel is lit by a similar window on the right and the large, arched opening of the former oratory which was part of the demolished sacristy.
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population decreased from 27'568 (in 1920) to 6772. The reduced parish covered the Tabán area, the northern slopes of Gellért Hill, the southern part of Naphegy and the hilly neighbourhoods around Sas-hegy. The territory of the Tabán parish was further reduced when the new Farkasréti parish was established in 1950.
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in 1910-11, and financed by different donors. The seven windows of the nave and the chancel depicted various religious scenes: Mary appearing in the grotto of Lourdes; the Holy Family; Saint Anne teaching the Virgin to read; the Annunciation; Anthony of Padua with the Infant Jesus; Christ and John on
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The vaulted chapel on the ground floor of the tower opens to the narthex, its entrance is protected by an iron grille. In the 18th century it was dedicated to the Holy Cross but also served as the Holy Sepulchre during Easter. Now the chapel is furnished with an early 18th-century Baroque altar which
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on the opposite side of the nave has the same ornate design. Both were donated by Wenzel Schützenberger and his wife in 1816, and still have their original donation plaques. The statues show Saint Barbara (carrying a chalice) and Saint Catherine of Siena (as a nun in Dominican habit). The painting on
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is the second side altar on the right; it belongs to the most ornate type of Late Baroque side altars in the church. The pediment is decorated with volutes, three putti and flaming vases. The altarpiece is flanked by a pair of decorative Corinthian columns and two statues, Archangel Michael slaying a
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of the chancel, opposite the pulpit. It was built after the Great Tabán Fire around 1815 in a similar Late Baroque style to the main altar and all the other important items of church furniture. The pediment is decorated with two flaming vases, the Eye of Providence and two putti holding a cross. This
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The urban context of the church has been changed fundamentally in the 19th-20th century with the widening of Attila út and several phases of large-scale demolitions. An outbuilding for the parish office occupies the central part of the original narrow churchyard on the north and the west which is not
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The side facades of the church are simple with large segmental arched windows. Originally the side walls and the apse were decorated with pilasters but in the end of the 1950s the building was strengthened with reinforced concrete buttresses on the outside. The sacristy to the left of the chancel was
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Between 1933 and 1938 a large part of Tabán district was demolished by the municipality of Budapest. Only a small group of houses was preserved and the context of the church changed fundamentally as the dense urban grain of the historic neighbourhood was replaced by a new park and wide thoroughfares.
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At the time of the unification of Buda and Pest in 1873 the chancel and the northeastern side of the church was surrounded by a narrow churchyard, enclosed by the neighbouring houses, and there was a small square in front of the facade. The street which connected Szarvas tér and Templom tér was named
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The reconstruction was begun by József Dankó the Elder in 1812 and it was finished by Ludwick Kimnach in 1818. Due to a shortage of funds, the ornate spire of the tower was replaced with a symple pyramidal roof in 1823. The interior and the new furniture was not finished until the 1830s. A new parish
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A further enlargement became necessary due to the rapid growth of the Roman Catholic population, and the old chancel – the converted Ottoman mosque – was demolished in 1765. The construction of a new section of the nave, the chancel and a two-storey sacristy on the western side was finished on 15 May
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on 25 March 1756 described the rich Baroque furniture: a main altar with the painting of Saint Catherine and several statues, an ornate pulpit decorated with statues of the Evangelists, St. Francis and seven angels, and side altars dedicated to the Holy Trinity, the Immaculate Virgin Mary, St. Antony
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became the Council of Buda according to the 1703 letter of privilege of the town. The guardian of the Víziváros friary served as parish priest but actual pastoral care was entrusted to a Franciscan administrator who lived in the Tabán district. The baptismal register was started in 1692, marriage and
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The interior of the church had several phases of fresco decorations, but none of them have survived. The frescoing of the chancel dome was first mentioned in 1822, and most probably it was created after the Great Tabán Fire of 1810. The fresco depicted Saint Catherine and the four Evangelists. A new
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is placed in the tabernacle niche. The altar was not part of the original furniture of the church, and stood in front of the Altar of Saint Anne in the 1950s. There is an 18th-century painting of the Madonna and Child above the altar. Two wooden statues of angels, which survived the Great Tabán Fire
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The Baroque pews were made after those which survived the 1810 fire; the originals were the works of Johann Ender, the same woodworker who created the lost Baroque main altar of the church in 1743-44. Other valuable items are the Empire confessional (after 1810) and a Neo-Baroque patron's pew in the
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The main altar of the church was built after the Great Tabán Fire of 1810 which had destroyed the previous structure. According to a description from 1756, the church had a richly decorated main altar with several statues and an oil painting of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. This was replaced by the
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The Church of Saint Catherine is a freestanding, single-nave Baroque church with a single tower on the southwest and an apse in the north. The main facade is divided into three vertical sections by simple Tuscan pilasters. The adjoining tower has similar pilasters at the corners on the ground floor.
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The Franciscan presence in the district also increased as one more friar settled in the small Tabán parish house in 1732. The old house was replaced by a more spacious building next to the church in 1759. The six room house was large enough to accommodate three friars from 1770 on. A new schoolhouse
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Tabán quickly became the most densely populated quarter of Buda in the first decades of the 18th century in spite of the several natural disasters and epidemics that hit the district. The number and percentage of the Catholic population also increased. In 1702 there were only 250 Catholics among the
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by László Kimnach was an animated Neo-Baroque composition. The painting illusionistically opened up the vault of the chancel toward the sky showing the ascent of the saint to Heaven. It was framed by trompe l'oeil architecture in the form of a round cornice. Saint Catherine was surrounded by angels
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performing Bach's organ works and his own compositions which was enjoyed by a large audience. The ornate Empire style cases, painted bluish green with a faux marble effect, are decorated with Ionic columns, half-pillars, urns and gilded ornaments; the Eye of Providence is set in the pediment of the
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of the church was built by Johann Staudinger in 1725; this was modified in 1738. In 1797 it was replaced by a new organ, built by Wilhelm Hartmann, which was lost in the Great Tabán Fire of 1810. A new organ was created in 1834-35 by Károly Focht, a 23-year-old young organ builder from Pest, as his
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is a large oil painting in Italian style with appealingly warm colours, painted with smooth academicism and clearly composed figures. It follows the traditional iconography of the mystical marriage of the saint: Saint Catherine receives a ring from the infant Christ held by his mother. The scene is
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sprung from pairs of simple Tuscan pilasters. The projecting cornice is strongly articulated. The first bay contains the western narthex, which is covered with three cross vaults, and opens toward the nave with a central elliptical arch and two semi-circular arches. The organ loft above the narthex
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in 1944-45. A bomb hit the western side of the building; the roof, the spire and the obelisk of the pediment were destroyed, the liturgical furnishings and the altars were extensively damaged or lost. Repair work began in June 1945, and the church became functional again by the autumn, although the
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in 1775. A new organ was built in 1797 by Wilhelm Hartmann, and a new main altar was erected between 1803 and 1806 (a work by stonemasons Franz Hofhauser and Antonio Allio, sculptor Friedrich Held and painters Josef Helm and Karl Josef Schöft). A new clock for the tower was made by Josef Hibling in
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A drawing from 1721 documented the Baroque reconstruction of the converted mosque. The original dome was replaced by a steep conical roof, the upper part of the minaret was demolished to the height of the main building and the remaining part was topped with a belfry and an ornate spire. A porch was
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The remaining three altars have a simpler Late Baroque design with gilded decoration on the top (small flaming vases, name plates and crosses) and slim side columns or pilasters; they have no altar tables. The original fourth altar of this type was dedicated to Saint Teresa but it was destroyed in
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The previous Baroque pulpit was destroyed by the Great Tabán Fire of 1810; it was a richly decorated structure from the 1740s with several statues. The present Empire style pulpit was created in 1822 by János Dolánszky, the sculptural elements were made by Frigyes Held. After the demolition of the
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as parish priest although the Illyrs protested against the change, and still demanded a Slavic-speaking priest. Franciscan friars served as Croatian chaplains until 1887 but the gradual assimilation of the Illyr population made their further presence unnecessary. Sermons were delivered in Croatian
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nearby which radically changed the urban surroundings again. Due to the disappearance of the Tabán district, the church became somewhat isolated, and the parish had a decreasing population in the last decades of the 20th century (numbering about 6000 people in 1982). There was a revival of parish
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The surroundings of the church changed again when the new circular grand boulevard of Buda was created. The level of Szarvas tér was lowered in 1894, and the parish office building with the sacristy was demolished to make way for the new road which was named Attila körút. Although the Council of
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were originally sparsely populated but the urbanization of the area made necessary to establish an independent parish because the majority of the parishioners already lived there. The Tabán parish was compensated with a small area that was detached from the Krisztinaváros parish but overall its
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The monumental retable has four colossal, partly gilded Corinthian columns and an elaborate entablature. It is crowned by a large sculptural group representing the Holy Trinity with the mappa mundi orb. The figures of the Father and the Son are surrounded by angels and clouds, and there is an
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was bought in 1756 where secular schoolmasters taught. From 1757 the Franciscan house in the Víziváros district (and the friars of the Tabán parish) belonged to new Province of St. John Capistrano. The majority of the friars, who served the parish in the 18th century, were Illyrs (Croatians).
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from 1881. The sculptor was commissioned by the municipality on 16 October 1880 for a payment of 1200 forints, and the three figures were made of Sóskút sandstone. The figure of Saint Gerard Sagredo is a visual reference to the medieval origins of the parish, which was founded after Gerard's
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The church burned down completely in the Great Tabán Fire of 1810 which destroyed the whole district. "The tower of the Catholic church in Rácváros caught fire after midnight yesterday, and collapsed horribly in the morning; the church itself also burned, illuminating this terrible night", a
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which gives the date of the fire: 5 September 1810. Schöfft painted the burning city as seen from Pest with its two churches and the row well-built houses on the Danube bank. There are two burning ships on the river, heavily loaded with goods, which is another historically accurate element.
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The parishes of Budapest were reorganized in 1922 to better suit the needs of the population which had been growing rapidly in the previous decades. The ancient Tabán parish was reduced to its core area, and lost a large part lying to the south of Gellért Hill. The districts of
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in 1850. The Venetian painter, who lived in Pest-Buda, received a commission from the parish to paint two large oil paintings for the church replacing those that were damaged in the revolutionary war. The 900 forints fee was only paid out in 1852 after some controversy. The
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second Baroque altar between 1803 and 1806. The present main altar was designed by József Dankó in a classicizing Late Baroque (Zopf) style in 1810-1812. The sculptural elements were made by stonemason Peter Bauer while the plaster statues were created by Johann Kurtzweil.
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the Last Supper and the Baptism of Jesus. The stained glass window of the organ loft was commissioned by the parish priest, János Leimeter in 1911 for the memory of his mother who died that year; it depicted a coat-of-arms with a black flag and a dedicatory inscription.
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The nave of the church is four bays long. The first three bays are covered with barrel vaults, while the wider fourth bay is covered with a Bohemian vault. The apse is surmounted by a pendentive dome, and a concave triumphal arch joins it to the nave. The double
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A painted and carved wood Ecce Homo statue is placed in a niche behind a grille on the right wall of the narthex; it was created between 1740 and 1760, and survived the Great Tabán Fire of 1810. A pair of shell-shaped, red limestone holy water stoups by
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the bells of the churches in Budapest were requisitioned by the Austro-Hungarian Army. Four larger bells from the 18th century were removed from the tower and taken away to be melted for military uses in 1916. Only the two small bells were retained.
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in 1686. The area had few inhabitants until November 1690 when a group of South Slavic refugees were resettled there by the Cameral Administration. The majority of the new arrivals were Orthodox Serbs who built their own quarter on the banks of the
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chancel with the coats-of-arms of Budapest (1927). The stone baptismal font is one of the few artefacts that survived the Great Fire, it was made by Johann Kugler in 1749; the wooden cover is decorated with a sculpture of Jesus baptized by John.
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watched by the Apostles Peter and Paul, two angels and a group of putti in the sky. The saint is depicted in royal robes with a crown and a broken wheel, her usual attributes at her feet, and one of the angels is holding the palm of martyrdom.
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1777 when the cross was raised on the roof. The architect of the expansion was probably Matthäus Nepauer. Two new side altars were erected in the 1770s that were dedicated to St. Sebastian and St. Joseph, and a third one was dedicated to the
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Zakariás G. Sándor: Adatok Buda építészetéhez a XIX. század első felében, in: Tanulmányok Budapest Múltjából 12. (1957), p. 302; Gy. Balogh Ágnes: Buda Főváros Kőműves és Kőfaragó Céhe mesterei, Építés - Építészettudomány 27. (1998), p.
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The original Baroque facade was also decorated with statues of saints (namely Catherine, Andrew and Peter), stone vases, volutes and a cross. These were created by sculptor Anton Eberhardt and stone-cutter Johann Kugler in the 1750s.
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The 232-year-long Franciscan administration of the parish ended with the death of the last administrator, Paskál Kostroschitz who served here from 1850 until 3 March 1868. In October 1868 the Council of Buda appointed a member of the
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by the Hungarian revolutionary army in May 1849, and Tabán was hit by artillery fire from Buda Castle. It was quickly repaired in the same year, the chancel was decorated with new frescoes and two altarpieces were added in 1850-51.
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masterpiece. When it was inaugurated, this was the most beautiful and best sounding church organ in Pest and Buda, and it had several technological innovations. A concert was held on 29 October 1835 in the church by
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The church was reconstructed in 1880-1881 by the Municipal Authority of Budapest: the facade was rebuilt in Neo-Baroque style, the shape of the pediment was changed and the facade was decorated with three statues by
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A stone cross was erected in front of the church in 1806, which bears an inscription on the plinth: "Ao 1806". The present statue of the Virgin Mary by Károly Antal was added in 1975, replacing an older sculpture.
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built in front of the entrance door. The chapel had four bells: two older ones and two new bells that were cast in 1723 by Jacob Nosbicher, a bellmaker in Pest. The new bells were dedicated to Apostles
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was created in the first half of the 19th century by an unknown artist, it depicts the saint wearing a dalmatic in the company of two angels, kneeling on a cloud with a gridiron beneath his feet. The
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until 1910, and singing in Illyric ceased four years later. Hungarian became the primary language of the Roman Catholic community of the district in the last decades of the 19th century.
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central aedicule. The large organ case was designed in a way that it does not block the light from the central window. A new pipe organ mechanism was constructed by Ottó Rieger in 1905.
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Two new bells were installed in the tower on 29 November 1925; the larger one weighing 500 kg was dedicated to Saint Catherine, the smaller to Saint Joseph. The bells were made by
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interior renovations went on in the following years. The renovation was still funded by the Municipal Authority of Budapest that remained the patron of the parish until 1950 when the
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at the time. They were mostly financed by donations collected by the Tabáni Oltáregyesület, a local charitable organization. The church was renovated by the municipality in 1928.
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Fejérdy András: A tabáni Alexandriai Szent Katalin plébánia, In: Katolikus Budapest I–II. Általános történeti szempontok. Plébániák. ed. Margit Beke. Budapest, 2013. pp. 386-387
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and putti among clouds, holding a large cross and a chalice in her hands. The four Evangelists with their symbols were depicted on the spandrels of the dome.
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of 1810, are also preserved in this chapel. The chrism is kept in a built-in cabinet near the entrance, and the northern wall is covered with votive tablets.
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Bizottsági és tanácsi előterjesztés a székesfővárosi kegyurasági római katholikus plébániák újabb területi beosztása és új plébániák felállítása tárgyában.
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are set into the arched cornice of the tower. The Neo-Baroque copper spire is composed of an onion dome, a lantern, triangular pediments and a steeple.
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In 1948 the parish marked the 900th anniversary of its foundation together with the Pest Inner City parish. An open-air mass was celebrated by Cardinal
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canonization in 1083 (the bishop was martyred nearby at the foot of Gellért Hill). Saint Charles Borromeo was a popular saint of the Catholic
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relief is placed on the wall where the original sculpture was located until the Second World War (the sculpture itself is preserved in the
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were exposed on a temporary altar. In the following years expressions of religious faith and parish life were severely restricted by the
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district, to take on the pastoral care of the Catholic Slavs who lived in the area. The Franciscan fathers already had a presence in
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on the western wall of the apse, was destroyed at the same time when the semicircular window of the former oratory was reopened.
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The church of Saint Catherine in 1810 with the ornate Baroque spire before the Great Fire. Detail of a view by Franz Jaschke.
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The next phase of the works began on 11 August 1750 and lasted until 1753. A new Baroque facade and a tower was built by
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Nagy Lajos: Budapest története III. A török kiűzetéstől a márciusi forradalomig, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1975, p. 144
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burial records have been kept from 1709. In 1706 the council granted a 2.3 ha vineyard on Gellért Hill to the parish.
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period, when the parish was re-established after a long hiatus, and the new church was dedicated to Saint Catherine.
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János Jajczay: Budai és pesti veduták vallásos tárgyú képeken, in: Tanulmányok Budapest Múltjából 4. (1936), p. 171
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was donated by Anton Hierwarter, and the naive altarpiece was painted in 1872 by C. Sauer. The altarpiece of the
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria holding a ring and a book (with a broken wheel and a sword at her side) - pediment
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The chancel was modernized in 1965-66 according to the requirements of the reformed Catholic liturgy after the
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The Serbian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic churches of Tabán in the 1870s before their Neo-Baroque remodelling
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In 1962-1964 new roads and a traffic interchange was built in connection with the construction of the new
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The stained glass windows of the church were also removed in the end of the 1950s. They were created by
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fresco was painted around 1850 by József Wágner but this was in turn replaced in 1890 by a fresco of
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The altarpiece is set in a concave frame decorated with gilded rosettes. The original painting by
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The Lower Town of Buda with the Mosque of Sokollu Mustafa Pasha in 1686. Engraving from Boethius'
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Farkas Zsuzsa: Marastoni Jakab pesti festőiskolájára vonatkozó iratanyag a Fővárosi Levéltárban,
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The main decorative elements of the facade are the niches which contain three statues by
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and stonemason Johann Kugler. Four new bells were cast in 1755 by Anton Czeichner. The
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in 1850 in a similar Italianate style as the painting on the main altar. It depicts a
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of Padua, St. Anne and the Holy Cross, all decorated with paintings and statues.
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Budapest műemlékei I, ed. Miklós Horler, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1955, p. 715
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and John the Baptist, Elizabeth and Zechariah with angels and putti in the sky.
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was destroyed in the bombardment of 1849. The present altarpiece was painted by
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The interior of the church was renovated again in the early 1910s. During the
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during the Ottoman period, and they spoke the Illyric language. The mosque of
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Rédey Rezső: Tabán és a 900 éves tabáni plébánia, Budapest, 1939, pp. 19-20
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Nándor Kaizer: A ferencrendiek Budapest-Tabánban, Magyar Ferences Könyvtár
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is set in the pediment; it shows the saint with a lioness at her feet.
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Arnold Schoen: A buda-tabáni Szent Katalin plébánia-templom, in:
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is made of polished wood with marquetry inlay. A small statue of
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The building and its surroundings were seriously damaged in the
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The church from Buda Castle with Gellért Hill in the background
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The reconstructed church in modern urban surroundings in 1967
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caring for the sick (with a rope in his neck) - on the right
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was converted to a chapel in 1692 and it was consecrated to
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The medieval parish was re-established in 1702, and its
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The Chapel of Mary on the ground floor of the tower
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Hungarian
German

47°29′32″N 19°02′38″E / 47.49222°N 19.043955°E / 47.49222; 19.043955
Attila út
Tabán
Várkerület district
Budapest
Hungary
Denomination
Roman Catholic
Tradition
Latin
parish church
Dedication
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Architect(s)
Christian Obergruber
Matthäus Nepauer
Style
Central European Baroque
Groundbreaking
spires
Materials
Diocese
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Esztergom–Budapest
Deanery
Parish
Priest(s)
Hungarian

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