Franciscan Church, Szeged-Alsóváros, Catholic parish church and Franciscan monastery in Alsóváros, Szeged, Hungary

The Franciscan Church and monastery stand on Mátyás király tér in Szeged-Alsóváros. The church is built of brick, with a net-ribbed vault whose ribs are fired clay rather than stone. Windows appear on only one side, and the tower rises beside the chancel, as is customary in Hungarian Franciscan churches.

The Gothic church replaced a Romanesque hospital church of St Peter from the early 13th century. A three-aisled hall church was probably built in the mid-14th century using the old walls, and buttresses were added around 1450. At the turn of the 16th century the friars rebuilt the choir and sanctuary, added the tower and sacristy, and finished the work in 1503; the church was consecrated on 5 August 1509.

The church's feast day, the Assumption of Mary, falls on 5 August, the anniversary of its 1509 consecration. A bell named after the ethnographer Sándor Bálint, the 750 kg Paprikaharang, replaced a cracked predecessor in 2005. The tower base, converted into a baptistery, holds wall paintings by Béla Kontuly made in 1948–49.

The church stands on Mátyás király tér in Alsóváros, with the tower beside the chancel rather than at the facade. A 1724 statue of Saint Mary stands before the entrance, and a monument to Matthias I is at the doorway. The Franciscans were expelled in 1950, the monastery became an old people's home, and they returned in 1989.

The bell known as the Paprikaharang cracked and was replaced on 9 July 2005 with a 750 kg bell tuned to F sharp, funded by donations and blessed by Bishop Gyulay Endre. It is named after the ethnographer Sándor Bálint.