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

The Parish Church of St. Vincent de Paul, 1936

The Parish Church of St. Vincent de Paul, 1936

No. 19—21 Haller utca, District IX

"Treat the poor fair, for they are your maiten." (St. Vincent, 1581-1660)

A fifty-metre tall tower in the axis of Mester utca indicates the direction of this church from afar. Miklós Töttössy, the parish priest who commissioned it, chronicled the history of the parish and of the construction. Lajos Fridrich was assigned to draw up the designs in 1929. However, as a chief councillor in the employ of Budapest’s municipality, he could not undertake the entire work himself and so he turned the plans over to architect Gáspár Fábián (1885-1953). What Fábián was commissioned to do was to add ornamental detail and an impressive tower to the original layout, which he was supposed to preserve (1930-35).

Vincent, who looked after the poor and the diseased while he taught the clergy, is the patron saint of charity. This neo-Romanesque church devoted to his cult

■ The main facade from the weit

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