Budapest - Várkerület: Szentharomság ter - Mátyás Templom

            Nagyboldogasszony-templom (The Church of the Assumption of the Buda Castle), more commonly known as Mátyás-templom (Matthias Church), more rarely the Coronation Church of Buda, is a Roman Catholic church located in Szentháromság tér (Holy Trinity Square).  According to church tradition, it was originally built in Romanesque style in 1015, although few references exist. The current building was constructed in the late Gothic style in the second half of the 14th century, starting under king Louis I of Hungary, with expansions through the reigns of Sigismund of Luxembourg.  The church reached its medieval prosperity during the 15th century reign of king Matthias Corvinus, with the addition of the southwest bell tower, Mátyás-torony (Matthias Tower), in 1470.  During the Turkish invasion in 1526, much of the medieval features were destroyed.  After Buda was retaken in 1686, the church became the property of the Franciscans, and then of the Jesuit Order, which restored it in Baroque style.  Between 1874 and 1896, under the leadership of king Franz Joseph I of Austria and architect Frigyes Schulek, the major restoration restored the building to its original gothic image.

The second largest church of medieval Buda and the seventh largest church of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom, it has seen the coronation of two Kings of Hungary--- Franz Joseph I of Hungary and Elisabeth, and Charles IV of Hungary and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.  It was also the location of the Marian Mircacle when, during the the siege of Buda by the Holy League in 1686, a wall of the church used as a mosque by Ottoman occupiers collapsed under cannon fire revealing an old hidden votive Madonna statue right before the Muslim garrison collapsed and the city fell all within a day.

Déli homlokzat, the southern facade, features three enormous lancet windows, situated between the two gates-- Menyasszony-kaput (Bride Gate) to the east, and Mária-kapu (Virgin Mary Gate) to the west, both of which were walled up using various sculpture fragments, and reopened as part of the 19th-century restoration.  Menyasszony-kaput was originally built in the 1250's. Mária-kapu, a medieval double doorway portal was originally built at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries.  Schulek built an atrium in front of Mária-kapu, to protect its original 15th-century Gothic carvings, including a a tympanum depicting Virgin Mary “falling asleep” and her assumption into heaven.

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Taken on: May 1, 2022

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