Queen of the Rosary Church, Roman Catholic parish church in Zugló, Budapest, Hungary
The Queen of the Rosary Church is a single-nave Gothic Revival hall church on Thököly út in Zugló, with a Latin-cross plan, a semicircular apse and two towers of unequal height. It is 47 m long, 30 m wide and 22 m high, and its taller tower reaches 80 m including the cross. The main altar, designed by István Möller in Carrara marble, shows the Queen of the Rosary with the child Jesus, Saint Dominic receiving the rosary and Saint Catherine of Siena.
The Dominican order opened a public chapel on Thököly út in 1905; the church was built beside it between 1912 and 1915 to designs by Hofhauser Antal, with Ferenc Paulheim also credited in English sources. Archbishop János Csernoch consecrated it on 3 October 1915 as the national shrine of the Queen of the Rosary. A parish was formed in 1919, and Dominicans served here until 1951, again from 1989 to 2007.
The church is a national shrine of the Queen of the Rosary, consecrated as such on 3 October 1915. Dominican friars served here until 1951 and again from 1989 to 2007; since 2007 diocesan priests of the Esztergom-Budapest Archdiocese have run the parish, founded in 1919. The large crucifix by the entrance, carved by Andreas Crepaz, was brought from Tyrol in 1930 for the Saint Emeric year and later donated to the church.
The church stands at Thököly út 56 in Zugló, its 80-metre tower visible along the avenue. The 1997 fire closed the building and interior renovation only began in 2008, so visitors should confirm current opening times before travelling, as access depends on services and the parish office.
The 80-metre tower, measured with its cross, makes the church one of the tallest in Zugló. The great crucifix by the entrance, carved by Andreas Crepaz, is a Tyrolean cross brought to Budapest by Tyroleans in 1930 for the Holy Year of Saint Emeric and donated to the church after the festivities; it later served as the altar cross at Pope John Paul II's 1991 Mass in Heroes' Square.
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