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Sacred Sanctuaries PLACES OF WORSHIP WORTH A VIEW / BY heNK HIRS Throughout its history, the Hungarian kingdom was always home to many ethnic groups and religions, with everyone building their own sacred sanctuaries. 1 8 <strong>WHERE</strong> London BUDAPEST I JANUARY I DECEMBER 2013 <strong>2017</strong>
1. CATHOLIC SPLENDOUR The neo-baroque St. Stephen’s Cathedral, full of marble and gold leaf, is the most majestic of the catholic churches. In a side chapel, it exhibits the holy right hand of King and Saint Stephan. Much more modest in appearance is the Inner City Paris Church close to the Danube, built on top of the remains of a Christian chapel from Roman times. (Pest V, Szent István tér 1, Map D4 - Pest V, Március 15. tér 2, Map D6). 2 2. SUPERB SYNAGOGUES The main synagogue is the biggest in Europe, built in the 1850s in a superb fusion of Moorish and Byzantine styles. The building has several characteristics that are normally not part of a synagogue but are reminiscent of a Christian church such as two towers, a pipe organ, and an alter-like bema (the platform from where the Torah is read). This reflects the determination of Jewish Hungarians to integrate into mainstream society. A few streets away stands the Orthodox synagogue, a remarkable late-Art Nouveau building from 1913. Pest VII, Dohány u. 2. and Kazinczy u. 29, Map E5 3 3. COLORFUL AND ORNATE The colorful and ornate Matthias Church is arguably the most beautiful of today’s catholic churches in Budapest. It started out in the 13th century as a simple parish church for the German population of the newly established city of Buda but was, over the centuries, reconstructed many times. It is a must see, inside as well as out. Buda I, Szent Háromság tér, Map H4 4 4. PROTESTANT, ORTHODOX, MUSLIM The Calvinist Church of Buda, just along the river, is from 1896 and has a very distinctive 62-meter-high tower and a pyramidal roof covered by multicolored Zsolnay tiles. The Hungarian Orthodox Church in Pest, also near the river, has an impressive iconostasis- I would explain what this word means, while one of the spires, destroyed in World War ii, was restored in a modern style, giving the building its distinctive outer appearance. The Gül Baba mausoleum and tomb on Rose Hill in Buda is one of the few Islamic sanctuaries in Hungary. Gül Baba is Turkish for “Father of Roses,” the name of the Ottoman ascetic and poet who was buried here. Buda I, Szilágyi Dezső tér , Map B4 - Pest V, Petőfi tér 2, Map D6 - Buda II, Mecset u.14, Map B2 www.wheretraveler.com 9
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