Further towards the North is the Parade Square (Disz-ter), with a Honved Monument by Zala), then we come to Trinity Place, which is adorned by the oldest and most beautiful Church of Budapest. It is the Coronation Church or Mathias Church, a splendid building, begun in the 13th Century under King Bela IV in the Roman style, and completed in the 14th Century under Mathias Corvinus in Gothic style. It was used by the Turks as a Mosque for 150 years. Later additions and rebuilding quite robbed the Church of its original character, but a compete restoration by Frederic Schulek (1873--96), and the reconstruction of certain parts, restored its architectural beauty.

This Church has for centuries been the scene of all the great historical ceremonies; the coronation of Charles Robert in 1309, the marriage of Mathias Corvinus to the Princess Beatrice of Naples in 1475, and the coronation of King Francis Joseph I on the 8th June 1867. Here also, the earthly remains of King Bela III (d. 1196) and his Queen, Anna of Antioch, were laid to eternal rest in a beautiful marble tomb. Close to the Coronation Church stands the new building of the Finance Ministry (built by Alexander Fellner in 1905); and in the Square behind the Church, is the equestrian statue of St. Stephen (by Alois Strobl) in Roman style. Around the Church and the Statue stretches the Fisher's Bastion, a series of arcades, terraces, towers and balconies in Roman Gothic transition style. Leading down to Albrecht Street is a massive flight of steps in the bend of which stands the statue (von Toth) of John Hunyadi the Conqueror of the Turks, and a copy of the equestrian statue of St. George from the Prague Hradschin.

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Adapted from Illustrated Description of Hungary and its Capital