Mária Chapel in Kútvölgy, Catholic chapel in Kútvölgy district, Budapest, Hungary.
Mária Chapel in Kútvölgy consists of a small rectangular stone chapel with a gabled roof, built in 1753, now serving as the sanctuary of the larger Magyarság Engesztelő Kápolnája, a limestone chapel added in 1990. The original iron door still closes the small chapel, and the Mária-kút well beside it is enclosed by a wall forming a small cloister with twelve Stations of the Cross carved in Carrara marble, donated by Belgian pilgrims in 1991.
A chapel was first constructed on this site following the rescue of a child from a well in 1753. The current stone building was completed in 1990, replacing the original wooden structure.
The chapel's feast days drew hundreds of pilgrims in the 19th century, not only from Pest but from distant parts of the country and from abroad. The Mária-kút well beside it is now enclosed by a wall forming a small cloister, whose wall carries twelve Stations of the Cross in Carrara marble donated by Belgian pilgrims in 1991.
The chapel stands at the corner of Felső Svábhegyi út and Városkúti út on Regőczi István tér in Kútvölgy, not at Galgóczy utca. The Mária-kút spring beside it is enclosed by a wall forming a small cloister, with twelve Stations of the Cross in Carrara marble donated by Belgian pilgrims in 1991. A pilgrim house named Táborhegyen, consecrated in 1998, stands next to the chapel.
The 17th-century Spanish painting of Mary with the child Jesus was the chapel's votive image by 1970, when Father István Regőczi enclosed the small 1753 building in a larger wooden chapel. Works by various noted artists decorated the walls of that wooden structure, which was demolished after the change of regime.
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