Downtown Candlemas Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Baranya County · Hungary

Downtown Candlemas Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Hungary
Photo: Jozsef TOTH, CC BY-SA 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A domed building on the main square of Pécs, raised in the 1540s as the Mosque of Pasha Qasim and converted to a Catholic church after the Ottomans withdrew. Its wide green dome and mix of Ottoman and Christian features make it the largest surviving Turkish structure in Hungary.

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