The Church of Our Lady of Buda Castle
Gothic coronation church turned mosque, where a hidden Madonna statue was revealed by a wartime blast in sixteen eighty-six.
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This guide to the Church of Our Lady of Buda Castle traces a Madonna statue sealed behind plaster in 1541, when Ottoman rulers turned the church into a mosque known as the Great Mosque of Suleiman Han. For roughly a hundred and forty-five years, Turkish soldiers prayed here, unaware of what their own wall concealed, while a Christian army gathered outside the city through the summer of 1686. Stand near the old altar wall and picture that plaster still holding.
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