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

■ Fibhermen'i Baótion with the Coronation Church. Photo by Mór Erdélyi. 1907

lowing World War I, the revolutions and the country’s territorial losses under the Trianon peace treaty, the Catholic Church acquired further parishes, presbyteries and churches to counter the spread of religious indifference. Today the archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest consists of 12 deaneries and 105 parishes with approximately a hundred and fifty churches and other places of holy worship, which does not include the churches and institutions belonging to the religious orders. Csepel Island comes under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Székesfehérvár diocese.

This work introduces a selection of Roman Catholic churches built within the 130-year period following the unification of Pest, Buda and Óbuda in 1873. This overview aims to demonstrate that even these relatively 'young' churches are worthy of attention, due to their artistic and historical characteristics. Discussed here, in the order of their blessing or consecration, are churches which can provide, within the framework of the present introduction, a graphic picture of the architectural, artistic, ecclesiastical and social history of the period surveyed. The distinctive buildings in this selection have been chosen to suggest, using specific examples, the main features characterising the ecclesiastical architecture of the period. Introduced in the book are the differences between the philosophies of reconstruction characterising the individual historical periods,

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