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

The Parish Church of St. Imre, 1938

1930, the 900th anniversary of Imre's beatification. The church of the saint usually depicted holding a lily, the symbol of chastity, is the work of Gyula Wälder (1884-1944), an emblematic representative of Hungary's neo-Baroque style. The first building to appear was the Cistercian grammar school (1927—29) standing now beside the church, also built to plans by Wälder. Nearest the Circus stands Pál Fábián's St. Margaret's Grammar School and Monastery (1930-32), a building reminiscent of the Classicist tendencies characterising the late Baroque period. The complex—left unfinished with a party headquarters (1972) wedged in, where the Cistercian monastery was to stand—is a unique creation of Hungarian architectural history. Turning back to the past after Trianon, in defiance of international Modernism, the conservative elite expressed itself in the grand architectural forms of the Baroque imagination.

Népizava (Voice of the People), the central press organ of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party, used harsh words in its criticism. "If there is one single

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