Dobrossy István: Miskolc írásban és képekben 2. Második, átdolgozott kiadás (Miskolc, 2006)
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city. Their graves are in the cemetery on the hillside of Avas. István Széchenyi (1791-1860) was highly respected in Miskolc. The National Club, an ornamental cup and names of shops used to keep his memory, and the main street of the city is called Széchenyi street as well. He has a statue on one of the main squares of Miskolc, the City Hall square, just as well as in the area of the house of the Committee of Academy. The book mentions János Nagyváthy, an outstanding figure of Hungarian agriculture, who was bom in Miskolc too, Endre Latabár, the first member of a dynasty of famous actors and Roza Dériné Széppataki also from the world of the stage. From the fields of the medicine and arts Aladár Henszelman, and the famous painter, Mihály Munkácsy could have a place in this volume. We can read about the freemen of the city, and of some important figures of the local government in the book as well. The sceneries and poetic descriptions of Miskolc prove that the religious tolerance has been a characteristic element of the policy of the city. Many different denominations could build churches here through the past centuries, and new churches and houses of pray open today too in Miskolc. We can see new churches among panel blocks of flats that were built in socialist times (Győri kapu, Avas area). The book describes all the twenty churches and chapels which can be found within the historical borders of the city. The old historical Miskolc has been extended with eleven villages that used to be independent, forming "Great Miskolc" with common local government that is why we have to differentiate the historical area of the city from the one that exists today. The Protestants have a very famous church and campanile on the Avas hill beside two others in the downtown (the "Boardchurch" in Tetemvár and the one in Kossuth street). The Lutherans have a church in the centre too. The Roman Catholics have a church and protected architectural monuments in the Mindszent part of Miskolc that used to be a separate village. Other Catholic churches are the Saint Ann church in the upper town from the beginning of the 19th, and the Ige church on Avas hill from the last decade of the 20th century. The Minorite monastery and church was built in the beginning of the 19th century in New Miskolc (Nova Civitas), and there is another Catholic church in Selyemrét, and a chapel in City Hall square (Zárda Kápolna). The Church of the Greek Catholics was built in the first decade of the 20th century in Búza square, on the north side of the old market place. The Jewish, who had a strong and high numbered community in Miskolc, used to have two synagogues. The one in Palóczy street was destroyed in the 1960s, and the other one in Kazinczy street was built in the 19th century and it is under protection today. The most important ecclesiastical value of Miskolc is perhaps the iconostas in the Orthodox church that with some other relics of the liturgy mirrors the vanished richness of the Greek merchants. The church and its museum belong to the special values of Europe. The first part of the second volume of the book deals with the schools. The oldest high school was established by the Protestants four and a half centuries ago. The Catholic and the Orthodox Church founded their schools in the 18th century. The first decades of the 20th century meant the concentration on the formation of a modem society. Aims, like the "centre of iron industry", an "educational centre", and the "capital of the region" (from the 20s) became important at that time. Following trading tradi617
