Kecskemét - Great Church

(Local Name: Nagytemplom) The church with the contrasting yellow and white façades near the Town Hall is known as the Great Church (Nagytemplom); work on it commenced in 1774 to plans by Gáspár Oswald, but it was 1806 before it was completed. The group of figures above the entrance shows Christ handing the Keys of Heaven to Peter. The faces on the niche-sculptures on the front of the building are those of SS Stephen and Ladislaus, Peter and Paul. The Hungarian artist József Ferenc Falkoner was responsible for the painting of the Ascension on the high altar.