800-year-old Árpád Age temple partly restored in Hungary – PHOTOS
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The 800-year-old Árpád Age temple is near the small village of Csákányospuszta with a 36-minute driving distance from Budapest, close to Tatabánya and on the route of the National Blue Trail.
ROM Vándor Programme renews churches
Sándor Scheer, the CEO of the subcontractor Market Építő Ltd., said they carried out the restoration work in the framework of the ROM Vándor Programme. He added they aim to restore and promote Hungarian monuments. They think of a 10-year-long term at least concerning the program and allocate approximately HUF 100 million (EUR 250,000) on it each year.
As a key player in the Hungarian construction industry, they wanted to set an example others may follow. They would like to follow their motto “We love to build”, and create value in the long term, Magyar Építők wrote.
800-year-old Árpád Age temple, cemetery only remnants
The temple’s area is privately owned, but Zoltán György Sármán, the owner, gladly offered it for the restoration work and the community.
The most important goal of their initiative was to preserve the ruins of the 800-year-old temple in their natural beauty. The Rom Vándor Programme helped before the renovation of the temple of Tök in the Zsámbék basin and the ruins of the Kövesd temple, close to Lake Balaton.
The ruins of Csákányospuszta were once a small church directed to the Northeast. The 800-year-old Árpád Age church was single-nave and had a horseshoe-shaped sanctuary. Erected between the 12th and 13th centuries for the village of Csákányegyház, it is the only remnant of the once-existing Árpád Age settlement apart from the cemetery. The latter was discovered between 2003 and 2006 and contained 144 graves.
