The Church of Márkháza was made by the Ybl-prize winning architect István Szabó; it differs from his church-buildings in Budapest (a majority of which use concrete as structure). Thebuilding respects is environment by using simple materials and forms. architect: István SZABÓ…
Fehérgyarmat is a small town in the North-Eastern part of Hungary, one of the most determinant place in the Szatmári-plate, which was an important trading center in the past. Before the dedication of the church in August 1999 Fehérgyarmat had…
The shape and the positioning of the small community building follows the tradition of the old village-house from the Hungarian Plain; though the slight change in the angle of the roof and the detailing makes it ook like a public…
The building in Farkasrét was the first church built under the communist era. Isván Szabó architect (1914-1988) was also a part of the congregation and worked on the plans for free, and also took part in the construction. architect: István…
The studio’s first built project is the Roman Catholic parish, associated with the congregation of Üröm. leading architects: Balázs FALVAI, Dávid TÖRÖK, Márton NAGY - DMB Műterem Kft. architectural consultant: Mihály BALÁZS year of design/construction: 2010/2014 photo: © Tamás SZENTIRMAI…
The lutheran church of Balatonboglár stands near to the edge of the city, seamlessly fitting into the hill of Boglár at the border of the nature reserve. The construction was preceded by an invitation-based competition. One of the most important…
The Lutheran Church in the Village of “Kisfalud” is the first completed church by Béla Pazár. The building was erected behind an existing belfry, however the basic conception was not developed from the idea to integrate the tower. leading architect:…
Ildikó square’s church is a five minute walk from Kelenföld train station and Etele square. The building appears unexpectedly from between the neighboring houses. It was built on a separate lot surrounded by three streets. The hexagonal shape is a…
The program of the congregation was to formulate liturgic spaces for the Church's missionary activities. It also included spaces for events and residental functions. There was also a consideration that the Church space should be able to hold organ concerts.…
The building developed from the 19th century. It became the property of the Heart of Jesus Nuns Association in the 1930’s. It was partly reconstructed according to their demands. It has been hit during the war. After the secularization it…
The objective of this major renovation of its thirteenth-century basilica was the retuning of its interior to reflect contemporary patterns of liturgical use, whilst also recovering something of the spirit and spatial quality of the original architecture, lost amongst the…
The Saint Emeric Parish Church is situated on the northeast side of Sopron, integrated into a housing estate. The invitationan competition announced by the Episcopate of Győr had been won by Tamás Fejérdy and Péter Fejérdy’s plan, due to it’s…
Kismegyer, a suburb of Győr, announced an invitational competition in 2004. The winner was Zsolt Gunther and Katalin Csillag, but after considering the difficulties of the development, Father Ferenc Bartok suggested the building of the 2nd prize plan of Mihály…
The Congregation House in Szandaszőlős was designed by SAGRA Architects, after winning an architectural competition in 2008. The design basically consists of three elements: the church, the congregation house with an office and a belfry. leading architect: Sajtos Gábor -…
The former monastery had a new, private owner in 2004 - in the puritan, but cozy and intimate milieu of the building was converted into a teaching and meditation centre. The former monastic cells were changed to 23 furnished guest…
Szászberek is a small village, lies 15 kilometers from Szolnok; the new church lies in the northern part, not far from a castle. The chapel standing here earlier was destroyed in World War II., and was replaced by a temporary…
Built for the reformed congregation which has overgrowed its previous chapel settled in an original farmhouse. The church is, at the same time, the memorial church of the hungarians beyond the frontier. The building is situated in the edge of…
"Dunaújváros is a really special work of mine. Special, because it was my first comission for a church, and special because Dunaújváros was for long decades imagined as a communist city, in which almost no place were left for religious…
The Csepel Greek Catholic chapel is present as the “westmost bastion of Greek-Chatolicism” in the suburban, smallscalefamilyhomes environment. The small but compact body does not try to draw attention to itself with its ornamentation or cultivated details, rather carries its…
Thanks to the effort of the Lutheran congregation of Sopronnémeti, after more than 100 years of standing by itself, the belfry was completed with a church in 1997. architect: Tamás NAGY year of design/contruction: 1993 /1997 Photography: © Tamás NAGY, © Abigél…
In 1998, the Jesuits called for proposals to design the new ecclesiastical center. István FERENCZ won the opportunity to design the complex on a gently sloping empty plateau, to the center of Avas-housing where approximately 40.000 people live. architect: Ferencz…
The city of Gödöllő growing since the 60s, and its Roman Catholic community outgrew the chapel of the Grassalkovich Hall that had been made uncomfortable by the increasing tourism. The old parish and the chapel of the hall couldn’t satisfy…
Piarists is the oldest Catholic educational order. It started in Budapest at the beginning of the 18th Century. The building at this location wasdesigned by Dezső HÜLTL in 1917. It consisted of two wings, one at the Szabadsajtó street, the…
The 3 acres of land situated NorthWest of the visitor center on the Kosaras Hill previously housed the steam-laundry of the Abbey built in the early 1900s. The quiet, wooded area provides an ideal opportunity for welcoming and housing the…
The church, designed by Ferenc Török and Mihály Balázs, was originally meant to be the 1996 Vienna-Budapest Expo Vatican pavilion, but with the faliure of the exhibition it became the parish church of the Technical University. architecture: Ferenc TÖRÖK, Mihály…