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O O O O Our sacred places
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The Orthodox Serbian Church dedicated to St. Nicholas was largest church of Hungary and one of the most famous sym-

built in 1778. The major element of the interior of the single- bols of Szeged. New community spaces were added to the

nave, well-proportioned Baroque church is the Rococo-style Cathedral of Szeged in 2016. Among other things, a mul-
iconostasis by Jován Popovics. tifunctional exhibition area was placed in the sub-church.
The inhabitants of Szeged pledged to build a Cathedral af- The liturgical space was changed, the naves were expanded

ter the Great Flood; this is the reason why it is also called with new rows of pews, the acoustics were improved, and not
the Votive Church. Its original designs were made by Frigyes only the western, but also the Dömötör tower was opened

Schulek, and aft er modifications by Ernő Foerk, construction to visitors. The Dömötör Tower, the remains of the former

was started in 1913. The construction, which was suspended St. Demeter Church, which stood on the place of the Cathe-

due to World War I, was only resumed in 1923. Th e Cathedral dral, is the oldest architectural monument of the city, and its
was consecrated in 1930, on the 900th anniversary of the original walls date back to the 11th century. On the fi rst fl oor
founding of the Csanád Diocese and the 50th anniversary of the tower - decorated with frescoes by Vilmos Aba-Novák
of the pledge. - visitors can learn about the history of baptism, while the

The building, which displays elements of the Neo-Roman- second floor houses an interactive exhibition of the history
esque, Byzantine, and northern Italian styles, is the fourth of the construction of the Dömötör Tower.

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