Lyceum Church and Monastery in Pécs, Baroque Catholic church in Pécs, Hungary

The Lyceum Church on Király Street is a single-nave Baroque church with shallow chapel niches on both sides and a barrel-vaulted ceiling divided by transverse arches. Its facade has two tiers of pilasters, a scrolled Baroque gable between two towers topped with onion domes, and a red marble tablet above the main door inscribed to the Transfiguration with the dates 1756, 1956, 1975 and 2014, flanked by two stone angels.

The Pauline monks settled near the former Buda Gate in 1698, and the monk Vépi Máté designed the church and monastery in 1740. Bishop Berényi Zsigmond laid the foundation stone in 1741, and the church was consecrated in 1756 to the Holy Trinity. The two facade towers were finished in 1779; after Joseph II dissolved the Pauline order in 1786, the complex stood unused for half a century until Bishop Szepesy Ignác bought it in 1835 and gave it to the Lyceum.

The name Lyceum Church comes from Bishop Ignác Szepesy, who bought the complex in 1835 and converted the monastery into a lyceum for law and philosophy. The church is dedicated to the Transfiguration of Christ, and its feast is held on August 6, the Sunday closest to the Transfiguration. The Pauline Order regained the church in 1997 and fully owns it since 2012.

The building sits on Király Street in central Pécs, easily reached from other historical sites. The interior can usually be visited during daytime hours, and a walk through the neighborhood connects this visit with other attractions nearby.

The single surviving bell weighs 500 pounds and was cast in 1832 by the Pécs bell-founder Weinbert Péter. The church keeps it as the last of its former peal, and the red marble tablet above the main door records the dedication years 1756, 1956, 1975 and 2014.