The town - Siklós, Hungary

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The romantic style Town Hall of Siklós
Built in 1860
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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Mosque of Malkoch Bey
"Bey" is an Ottoman (Turkish) military rank.
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The view of the main street with shops and residental houses
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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Central Hotel and Restaurant (currently Hotel Agora Siklós)
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The sanctuary of the church
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The tower of the Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Parish Church
It was built between 1751-1755
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church on the south-eastern side of the castle hill (at the so-called "Perényi Bastion")
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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A stone vase with a small shrub, in front of the former Franciscan Church
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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Statue of Virgin Mary in front of the Holy Trinity Church
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The old Virgin Mary Statue stands here on the column in front of the Holy Trinity Church since 1988
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The interior of the Holy Trinity Church
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The interior of the Holy Trinity Church - Siklós, Hungary
The interior of the Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The interior of the Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church - Siklós, Hungary
The pulpit of the church is from 1755
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The pulpit of the church is from 1755 - Siklós, Hungary
The baroque Saint Francis of Assisi Altar was created in 1760
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The baroque Saint Francis of Assisi Altar was created in 1760 - Siklós, Hungary
The wood carved so-called "Squire's Pew"
It was created for Count Móric Benyovszky in 1921.
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The wood carved so-called "Squire's Pew" - Siklós, Hungary
Sacristy, wall paintings and a decorative cabinet
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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Sacristy, wall paintings and a decorative cabinet - Siklós, Hungary
Sacristy
A smaller room near the sanctuary to keep the liturgical objects and for the preparation for worship.
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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Sacristy - Siklós, Hungary
Red marble tombstone with a medieval knight figure in armor on it
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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Red marble tombstone with a medieval knight figure in armor on it - Siklós, Hungary
Medieval gothic wall paintings on the rib-vaulted ceiling, with the coat of arms of Garai family on the keystone
The murals were painted by Italian masters, in around 1410.
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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Medieval gothic wall paintings on the rib-vaulted ceiling, with the coat of arms of Garai family on the keystone - Siklós, Hungary
A Saint Anthony statue on the wall
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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A Saint Anthony statue on the wall - Siklós, Hungary
The baroque Saint Anthony Altar
Created in 1753
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The baroque Saint Anthony Altar - Siklós, Hungary
The Roman Catholic Holy Trinity Parish Church
The first written reference about it is from 1333.
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The Roman Catholic Holy Trinity Parish Church - Siklós, Hungary
The entrance of the Holy Trinity Church
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The entrance of the Holy Trinity Church - Siklós, Hungary
The Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Parish Church (until 1950 it was Franciscan Church and Monastery of St. Anne)
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Parish Church (until 1950 it was Franciscan Church and Monastery of St. Anne) - Siklós, Hungary
The clock tower of the red-painted Town Hall, and a bit closer in the park a bronze statue: "Girl with a trumpet"
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The clock tower of the red-painted Town Hall, and a bit closer in the park a bronze statue: "Girl with a trumpet" - Siklós, Hungary
The red tower of the Town Hall
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The red tower of the Town Hall - Siklós, Hungary
A bronze statue named "Girl playing music" or "Girl with a trumpet", a female figure is sitting on the bench
Created by István Martsa in 1967.
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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A bronze statue named "Girl playing music" or "Girl with a trumpet", a female figure is sitting on the bench - Siklós, Hungary
The Town Hall with its clock tower
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The Town Hall with its clock tower - Siklós, Hungary
A strange babbling fountain in front of the Town Hall
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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A strange babbling fountain in front of the Town Hall - Siklós, Hungary
Mosque of Malkoch Bey (or in turkish Malkoç Bey)
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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Mosque of Malkoch Bey (or in turkish Malkoç Bey) - Siklós, Hungary
Turkish-Islamic crescent moon on the top of Malkoch Bey's Mosque
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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Turkish-Islamic crescent moon on the top of Malkoch Bey's Mosque - Siklós, Hungary
Entrance of the Mosque of Malkoch Bey (built under the Ottoman rule)
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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Entrance of the Mosque of Malkoch Bey (built under the Ottoman rule) - Siklós, Hungary
Mosque of Malkoch Bey
The Europa Nostra Awarded monument was reconstructed in the early-1990s.
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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Mosque of Malkoch Bey - Siklós, Hungary
The steeple of the yellow Greek Orthodox Church
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The steeple of the yellow Greek Orthodox Church - Siklós, Hungary
The yellow steeple of the Greek Orthodox Church
Shooting date (date of photography): 03/10/20092009
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The yellow steeple of the Greek Orthodox Church - Siklós, Hungary
The Szársomlyó Hill (in the Villány Mountains) and the yellow Orthodox Church from the castle
Shooting date (date of photography): 10/10/20052005
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

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The Szársomlyó Hill (in the Villány Mountains) and the yellow Orthodox Church from the castle - Siklós, Hungary

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GPS coordinates: Latitude 45°51'6", Longitude 18°17'55" (N45 51.1 - E18 17.92)

Information, short stories, interesting facts

Red marble tombstone with a medieval knight figure in armor on it

During the archeological excavations in the sanctuary of the Holy Trinity Church of Siklós a red marble tombstone was unearthed. Although it had no any inscription, based on a coat of arms on it it is probably the tomb of Palatine Nicholas I Garai (in Hungarian "Garai I Miklós nádor") who died in 1386. If that was the case it is also sure, that his son Palatine Nicholas II Garay (or Garai Miklós II) Ban of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia had the gravestone brought here beside the altar.

Mosque of Malkoch Bey

"Bey" is an Ottoman (Turkish) military rank.

The Mosque of Malkocs Bey (in Turkish Malkoç Bey) of Siklós is one of the Turkish-Islamic architectural monuments of Hungary that is existing even today. The temple was built between about 1543 and 1565, during the Turkish occupation (the Ottoman rule) of Hungary. When Siklós was recaptured by Hungarians in 1686 the mosque was still intact, but after some time the building began to deteriorate. The minaret and the courtyard (the so-called "sahn") was destroyed, and the building was also altered more times. The archeological investigation of the rundown building was begun in 1969, the exploration was led by Győző Gerő and Ferenc Mendele. But the restoration works began only in the early-1990s and these were completed in 1994. The building received the prestigious Europa Nostra Award already in 1993, this is the cultural heritage conservation prize of the European Union (EU).

The reconstruction of the mosque interior was done with the help of the Ethnography Museum of Ankara, Turkey (they contributed to the furnishing by donating authentic objects as well).

During the ten-year Yugoslav war which was started in 1991 the building fulfilled its original function again for a while: a small Islamic community who took refuge in Hungary allowed to use it as a place of worship. An additional curiosity is that inside the mosque allegedly clay jugs were built into the walls, in order to improve the acoustics.

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