Szablyár Péter: Sky-high - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2007)

Churches; Towers; Domes

■ Józiejj Zoíthai Zehner: The Elisabeth Town Church, around 19/6

laid by Francis Joseph I himself in 1895. The large, fine church took six years to build before it was consecrated in 1901.

Dominating the main facade is the pair of 76 metre tall neo-Gothic towers (the highest in District VII) decorated with tracery as fine as latticework, together with a rosette and a group of statues between them above the three-portico entrance.

The centenary of its consecration was marked by the external reconstruction of the church; the internal reconstruction is still underway. With the fencing in of the churchyard, the residents of Elisabeth Town have been given a quiet leafy recreation area. Perhaps after the entire reconstruction is completed visitors will be allowed to ascend one of the towers to admire the panorama.

A gem in the Great Boulevard — the New York Palace

Nos. 9-11 Erzsébet körűt, District VII

The American New York Insurance Company invited competitive designs for its Budapest headquarters in 1890. Of the many well-known competitors, it was the

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