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The Esztergom Basilica is an ecclesiastic basilica in Esztergom, Hungary, the main church of the Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest, and the seat of the Catholic Church in Hungary. It is dedicated for the Blessed Virgin Mary Taken into Heaven, and Saint Adalbert. A church building is a building used in Christian worship. ...
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Esztergom (German Gran, Slovak Ostrihom) is a small city in northern Hungary, about 70 km north-west of Budapest. ...
The Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság) or Hungary (Magyarország) is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. ...
This Hungarian archdiocese is a unique one in the sense that it represents two cities, Esztergom and Budapest. ...
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Adalbert (Czech: Vojtěch, Polish: Wojciech, Germanic equivalent Adalbert - the joy of warrior) was a 10th century bishop of Prague who was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians. ...
As a building, it is the largest church in Hungary. Its inner area is 56,000 m2. It is 118 m long and 49 m wide. It has an echo of 9 seconds. Its dome, forming a semi-sphere, is situated in the middle, and it has 12 windows. It is 71.5 m high inside, with a diameter of 33.5 metres, and is 100 m high from outside, counted from the crypt. The Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság) or Hungary (Magyarország) is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. ...
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The altarpiece (13.5 × 6.6 metres, depicting the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Michelangelo Grigoletti) is the largest painting in the world painted on a single piece of canvas.
The basilica is also known for Bakócz Chapel (named after Tamás Bakócz), built by Italian masters between 1506–1507 out of red marble of Süttő, its walls adorned with Tuscan Renaissance motifs. It is the most precious remaining example of Renaissance art in Hungary. Tamás Bakócz (1442 - June 15, 1521), Hungarian archbishop, cardinal and statesman. ...
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The huge crypt, built in Old Egyptian style in 1831, is today the resting place of late archbishops, among others, József Mindszenty. Cardinal József Mindszenty (pronounced yor-zhef meend-sen-tee) (March 29, 1892-May 6, 1975) was a Hungarian Cardinal and steadfast opponent of the Hungarian communist regime. ...
History
The building of the present church took place on the foundation of several earlier churches. The first was built by Stephen I of Hungary between 1001-1010 (as the original Saint Adalbert church), the first cathedral in Hungary, which was burnt at the end of XII century. It was rebuilt, but not too much remained of it, and was almost completely destroyed under the Tartar (Mongol) Invasion. It was rebuilt again in the XIII and XIV century, and a huge library was added, the second most significant one in the country. It was ruined again under Turkish rule, in 1543. In 1820, the archiepiscopacy returned at last to the city, and archbishop Sándor Rudnay decided to make Esztergom again the ecclesiastical centre of the country. A statue of Stephen the Great King Stephen the Great or St. ...
Plans were made by Pál Kühnel, and the leader of the construction was János Packh. The foundation-stone was laid and work began in 1822. The Bakócz chapel, taken to 1600 numbered pieces, was attached to the new basilica 20 metres farther, 10 metres lower. In 1838, Packh was assassinated, and the archbishop trusted József Hild with the leading of the construction, and he completed it in Classicistic style. The new archbishop, János Scitovszky, urged the completion of the high church, so it was inaugurated on August 31, 1856, a good while before the full completion in 1869. The 1856 celebration ceremony was crowned by the Mass of Esztergom, a piece composed and conducted by Franz Liszt, his largest liturgical composition. Events March 30 - Florida becomes a United States territory. ...
August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ...
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Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a virtuoso pianist and composer. ...
The organ The renovation and enlargement of the organ started in the 1980s, after extended preparations, and it is currently in progress. It is supervised by István Baróti, the basilica's organist and choirmaster, who has been holding this position since 1975. The work still needs financial support for completion. As of 2005, there are 73 stops working out of the planned set of 146, and the organ has 5 manuals. This is where the biggest organ pipe can be found in Hungary, 10 m, 11 yard, in length. The smallest pipe is 7 mm, ¼ inch (without pipe foot). This organ, when ready, will be the third largest one in Europe, surpassing all organs in Hungary in its sound and variety. This article or section should be merged with Pipe organ The Casavant pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal The organ is a type of keyboard musical instrument, distinctive because the sound is not produced by a percussion action, as on a piano or celesta, or by...
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An organ stop is any of the characteristic sounds (timbres) available on a pipe organ. ...
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10 m and 100 m. ...
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At the time of the construction, in 1856, the organ was unique in Hungary with its 49 stops, 3530 pipes and 3 manuals. The present organ preserves several stops from the instrument Liszt played.
See also Pannonhalma is a small town in western Hungary, in Győr-Moson-Sopron county with approx. ...
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