Mattias Church, Budapeste

The Church of the Assumption of the Buda Castle, also known as the Matthias Church or the Coronation Church of Buda, is a Roman Catholic church in Budapest, Hungary, located on Holy Trinity Square, in front of the Fisherman's Bastion, in the center of Buda's Castle District. According to church tradition, it was erected around 1015 in Romanesque style, albeit few references survive. The existing structure was built in the second half of the 14th century in the florid late Gothic style and was significantly rebuilt in the late 19th century. It was medieval Buda's second biggest church and the seventh largest church in the medieval Hungarian Kingdom.

It is a historic structure with a significant history. Within its walls, two Kings of Hungary were crowned: Franz Joseph I of Hungary and Elisabeth, and Charles IV of Hungary and Zita of Bourbon-Parma. Buda's "Marian Miracle" took place in this chapel as well. During the Holy League's siege of Buda in 1686, a wall of the church - used as a mosque by the city's Ottoman invaders - fell owing to cannon fire. An antique votive Madonna figure was discovered hiding behind the wall. The morale of the Muslim garrison disintegrated as the sculpture of the Virgin Mary appeared before the praying Muslims, and the city fell on the same day.

Location: Budapest, Hungary