Prakfalvi Endre: Roman Catholic Churches in Unified Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)

The Church of Perpetual Adoration, Queen Elizabeth Memorial Church, 1908

the day, over Hofhauser's "heavy Gothic” style, which would have observed the precepts of a true Gothic style more closely, as Gáspár Fábián, himself a par­ticipant in the work of construction, observed. The designer was obliged to find room for the premises of a convent and the premises of the Altar Association on either side of the church, which had no transept, within the confines of a plot wedged into the street front. The layout of the interior, including the employment of a fretwork of buttresses supporting the nave, was prescribed by restrictions of space together with considerations pecu­■ Design for Miksa Róth's stained-glass window that perished. 1909 30

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