Prakfalvi Endre: Roman Catholic Churches in Unified Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)
The Parish Church of St. Margaret of the House of Árpád, 1933
The foundation stone of the church for a parish established in 1923 was laid in 1931. It was consecrated by Prince Primate Jusztinján Serédi on 15 October 1933. At the end of the 19th century Möller had found a solution, effective even by today's standards, for the preservation of numerous Hungarian medieval monuments. Buildings thus saved by Möller include the Premonstratensian monastery church in Zsámbék, which was built in the 13th century in early Gothic style. The one he designed for Lehel tér was a modified replica of that church. It is especially with the appearance of its facade—the staired gate with its orders of arches and the large rosette on the gable—that the twin-towered building at the end of inner Váci út most faithfully follows its prototype. On the other hand, the characteristically Gothic structure of the original was dispensed with here. Built of bricks, the three- aisled, basilica church was given a stone facing on the outside. The cross vaults .are also brick, except their profiles which are made of pressed ceramic, and the rein- forced-concrete arcade vaults. The layout, featuring two side apses but no transept, and a main chancel closed by five sides of an octagon is also patterned on the prototype. To the left of the main apse is the baptistery, to its left the sacristy. With its anachronistically historicist neo-Romanesque style, the smog-tainted mass of the church fails to blend harmoniously into its surroundings, standing church from 54
