Saint Anne Servite Church, Budapest, Catholic church with baroque design in District V, Budapest, Hungary
Saint Anne Servite Church has a four-storey neo-Renaissance main facade on Szervita tér, with a square bell tower rising two stages above it and crowned by a copper-clad spire. The lower levels are banded with plaster strips and a triangular pediment over the arched entrance; niches hold statues, and a rectangular relief panel sits at first-floor level. A baroque Marian column with a dark statue stands before the facade.
The Servite order settled here in 1689, using Pest's largest former mosque, the Büjük-dzsámi, before starting a new church in 1717 and a monastery in 1725. After designer János Hölbling died, György Pauer finished the church by 1732; the monastery was completed in 1772. Shelling during the 1849 siege of Pest damaged both, and József Diescher rebuilt the monastery in 1871–74 with a facade aligned to the church's.
The church is also called the Servite church, after the order that settled here in 1689 and used the largest of Pest's four mosques, the Büjük-dzsámi, before building this one. Above the entrance are statues of Saint Pellegrino, Saint Anne, Saint Philip and Saint Augustine; the facade niches hold further saints' figures.
The church stands on the south side of Szervita tér, its facade flush with the street wall; the baroque Marian column of 1729 rises directly in front of it. The former monastery site beside it is now occupied by a modern telephone-centre building converted in 2018 into housing and a hotel. The tower holds two bells: a 230 kg bell cast by János Nuspichker in Buda in 1694 and a 55 kg bell by Joseph Seimmer, Pest, 1757.
The 61-metre tower holds two bells: a 230 kg bell cast by János Nuspichker in Buda in 1694, and a 55 kg bell cast by Joseph Seimmer in Pest in 1757. The round window on the facade's fourth level originally held a clock.
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