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Budapest’s Best: Churches and Synagogues

there are very few medieval and Capuchin Church
renaissance churches still standing in Two Turkish windows
budapest. this is mainly due to the fact remain from the time
that the turks, during their 150-year rule, when this church was
turned all churches into mosques, which used as a mosque,
alongside fragments
were later destroyed or converted by of its medieval walls.
the christians. the reconstruction of
old churches and the building of new
ones started in the late 17th century,
hence the prevalence of baroque and
neo-classical styles.
KÓS KÁROLY
SÉTÁNY

St Anne’s Church Margit híd HUNGÁR IA K ÖR Ú T
Built in the mid-18th century,
this is one of the most ISTVÁN KRT
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beautiful Baroque A NDRÁSS Y Ú T
churches in the city. The D ÓZ S A GY ÖR GY Ú T
NORTH OF
joined figures of St Anne MAR GI T KÖ RÚT T ER ÉZ KRT
and Mary decorate the THE CASTLE T H ÖKÖ LY Ú T
centre of its façade. DISTRICT AROUND PARLIAMENT
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Mátyás Church GELLÉRT HILL
Romanesque and Gothic AND TABÁN
styles are both evident in
the coro nation church of
the Hungarian kings. The
Neo-Gothic altar dates
from the 19th century.
BARTÓK BÉLA ÚT
Cave Church
In the rocky interior of St
Ivan’s Cave, on the south
side of Gellért Hill, the
priests of the Pauline order
established a church in 1926.
It was designed to imitate the 0 metres 800
holy grotto at Lourdes.
0 yards 800

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