Budapest Inner-City Mother Church of Our Lady of the Assumption
Medieval church over a Roman fort, with a Turkish-era prayer niche and a bridge built around it.
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This guide to the Budapest Inner-City Mother Church of Our Lady of the Assumption follows a proposal in 1898, when two architects asked the city for a year to slide the entire medieval church out of the way of the new Elizabeth Bridge. It traces the layers beneath the building, a Roman fort, the burial place of Saint Gellert, Gothic rebuilding under Kings Sigismund and Matthias, and a Turkish-era prayer niche still visible on the wall inside. You will hear how the city kept refusing to move the church, and how engineers finally solved the traffic problem decades later without touching a stone of it.
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