Our Lady of Hungary church in Tisztviselőtelep, Catholic church in Tisztviselőtelep, Budapest, Hungary
Our Lady of Hungary church is a domed building on a Greek-cross plan, built in a classicizing empire style with a columned portico. The dome inscription states it was raised in honour of Our Lady of Hungary and in memory of Emperor Franz Joseph I, and beneath it are reliefs of the four evangelists. The high altar shows Our Lady of Hungary with the Holy Crown and the child Jesus.
The parish was organized in 1918 and became independent on 29 June 1919. Lechner Ödön first won the design competition with a neo-Romanesque plan, but after World War I inflation the collection restarted. His nephew Kismarty-Lechner Jenő designed the classicizing Empire-style church; its cornerstone was laid in 1924 and Cardinal Serédi Jusztinián consecrated it on 8 October 1931.
The church has served as a gathering place for the local Catholic community since its construction. It remains a familiar landmark in the neighborhood where residents mark important life events through religious ceremonies.
The church is located in the residential Tisztviselőtelep neighborhood and is easily accessible on foot once you are in the area. Visitors should note that services run on a regular schedule, so access may be limited to specific times of the day.
Behind the church stand copies of the destroyed Golgota Square sculptures and the two surviving stations of the cross, the first and the fourteenth; the other stations were set into the church's outer wall in the 1970s. The parish also keeps the registers of the István and László hospitals for 1907–1950 and of the closed Zita hospital from 1918 to August 1924.
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