Veszprém Archiepiscopal College Chapel

This is a modern complex comprised of a rectangular, single-story school/office wing with two internal courtyards and a perpendicular, six-story hotel wing with an asymmetrical roof (designed by: Dezső Dul, interior decorator: Ágnes Kigyóssy, ÁÉTV, plans: 1973, construction: 1974-1976). Originally, it was the county party school of the Education Directorate of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, and later it was a hotel. The entrance is on the ground floor of the six-story hotel wing, and the chapel at the southern end of the building is accessible from the foyer. The narrower section of the T-shaped space is the area for the congregation. The simple altar is in the wider part, in front of which there are two picture stands with modern icons, and there is a wooden cross with a bronze corpus on the wall. To the right of the altar, there is a tall wooden cross with a square tabernacle in the middle, and to the left there is a wooden sculpture of the Virgin Mary on a column base, which is inscribed at the bottom of the back, “Tóth J(ános). 1912”. The sculpture was a part of the altar of the Veszprém seminary until 1952, and later it made its way to Zirc and then back to Veszprém. There is a modern pump organ next to it. The door to the chapel is a custom-made wooden door with enameled ceramic inlays. Read less