St. Catherine of Alexandria Church, Budapest

The St. Catherine of Alexandria Church (Hungarian: Alexandriai Szent Katalin templom) is a Roman Catholic parish church in Attila Road,[1] Tabán, Budapest, Hungary.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria Church
Alexandriai Szent Katalin templom
Facade
Religion
AffiliationRoman Catholic
Location
LocationAttila út, Tabán, Várkerület district (Buda Castle district), Budapest, Hungary
Shown within Budapest
St. Catherine of Alexandria Church, Budapest (Hungary)
Geographic coordinates47.49222°N 19.043955°E / 47.49222; 19.043955
Architecture
TypeChurch
Completed1749

History

Built as a mosque in 1566 by the Pasha of Buda Jakob Szokollu Mustafa, in 1686 was taken over by the Catholic faithful and turned into a chapel. In 1697 the Franciscans built a school beside it. In 1702 a parish was established and a cemetery was built around the chapel. The church was enlarged between 1728 and 1736, the work was led by master Christian Obergruber.[1] The furnishings of the church are from 1748, including the pulpit and the atarpiece.[1] The crypt was built in 1749.[1] In the foreground is the "Tabán Christ", a Romanesque[1] tympanum fragment dating back to the 12th century, which was secondary to the wall of St. Catherine's Church.

At front of this church was other church, the St Demeter Church of the Racis (Serbs), which was demolished after World War II in 1949.

  • The church in 1830
  • Tabán in 1942, to the left the St Demeter Church of the Racis
  • View of the church from the Gellért Hill
  • Interior
  • the 12th-century tympanum "Tabán Christ"
  • Holy Sepulcher
  • Altarpiece

References
  1. "Budapest-Tabán Alexandriai Szent Katalin-plébánia (Parish of St. Catherine of Alexandria in Tabán-Budapest)". ittlakunk.hu.
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