Carmelite church and monastery Budapest, Catholic church and monastery in Angyalföld, Budapest, Hungary

The Carmelite Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel stands at the corner of Huba and Rózsafa streets in Angyalföld, attached to its monastery. The neo-Gothic, single-nave church measures 17 by 45 metres and is built largely of yellowish brick, with Budakalász stone for cornices, pillar caps and gable tips. Its two facade towers differ in height: the main tower reaches 70 metres, topped by a 30-metre copper-clad spire, while the shorter tower stands further along Huba Street. A small octagonal tower rises beside the sanctuary.

The Carmelites settled in Angyalföld in 1896, when a temporary chapel and monastery designed by Pucher István were consecrated; the monastery was built so that two more floors could be added. The church was begun in May 1898, its foundation stone laid on 15 October, the feast of Teresa of Ávila, and it was consecrated on 15 October 1899 by Bishop Schlauch Lőrinc. The plans, first conceived as a three-nave Romanesque church, became a single-nave neo-Gothic building with two towers of unequal height.

The church was the first in Angyalföld, and the monks heard confessions and celebrated Mass in Hungarian and in Slovak (tót), drawing crowds of 300 to 400 that often stood outside the chapel on feast days. The 1896 chapel now serves as the monastery refectory and council room.

The complex stands at the corner of Huba utca and Rózsafa utca in Angyalföld, District XIII. The church fronts Huba utca, where its facade joins that of the monastery; the Rózsafa utca side runs along the east wall. The main tower, 70 metres high with a 30-metre copper-clad spire, rises at the street corner, while the second tower stands further back along Huba utca.

The foundation stone was laid on 15 October 1898, deliberately timed to the feast of St Teresa of Ávila, foundress of the Carmelites; by then the walls already reached the level of the round windows. The main tower, 70 metres tall with a 30-metre copper-clad spire, once carried a 3.5-metre statue of Mary by sculptor Balázs István on its corner facing the small square, but the statue is no longer visible today.