External Renovation of the Reformed Church of Fasor, Budapest Text: Piroska Varga Photos: Grafit Műterem The restoration of a church seems to be a simple and straightforward task of monument restoration. In such a case, we can usually not talk about a change of functions, missing parts, and the building can be thoroughly explored in […]
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Historical Aspects of Church Architecture in the Inter-War Era Text: Zoltán Dragon This study draws conclusions concerning the problems of the whole range of Catholic liturgical spaces built between the two world wars on the basis of some sacral buildings located in Hungary. The churches built between the two world wars are the harbingers of […]
Catholic? Exotic?
Catholic Church Architecture and Oriental Forms in Interwar Hungary Text: Tamás Kiss Europe, with its Greco-Roman foundations and Christian religious and cultural roots, has been curiously looking to the East for inspiration ever since the Middle Ages. The encounters between Eastern and European civilizations have resulted in numerous architectural interactions over the centuries, to varying […]
The House of Assembly
The Spatial Implications of the Contemporary Sacral and Secular Uses of the Synagogue in Rumbach Sebestyén Street Text: Zoltán Major The post-war history of synagogues in historical Hungary is fairly diverse. In the Holocaust, the vast majority of the communities that belonged to the buildings were killed, and the majority of the society did not […]