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

Parish Church of the Queen of the Rosary, 1915

■ Design by Antal Hotjhauier—the church from the chancel, ign

... Peter save him a stick, and Paul a book. Then they said: 'Go thou, and preach, lor that is the service lor which God hath chosen thee’." (The legend of St. Dominic, Legenda aurea. 1263—73.)

The construction logbook of the Dominican church at the corner of the former Szent Domokos—today Cházár András—utca and Thököly út opens with an entry made on 19 February 1912, headed With God. Designed by Antal Hofhau- ser (1857-1923), the National (central) Sanctuary of the Queen of the Rosary was consecrated by Cardinal János Csernoch on 3 October 1915. It was also he who, in 1922, donated to the church the relic of the (as then) Blessed Margaret of the House of Árpád. The dynamic asymmetry created by the 78 metre tall belfry on the corner of the building is counterpoised by the shorter stair turret placed on the opposite side of the main front. That is the secret of the fine

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