Budapest’s Színes Város Group is committed to enhancing the city’s drab walls with vibrant murals that add a touch of color to urban settings. Recently, to complete an ongoing renovation project, the creative organization splashed one of Budapest’s oldest chapels with an oversized image based on an original artwork by Hungarian architect and painter Károly Kós. This is not the first time that visuals of the Magyar master inspired the renovation of Óbuda’s Reformist church – in 1909, during the Habsburg Empire’s reign over Hungary, this ecclesiastical edifice was rebuilt based on Kós’s plans.

With numerous city-decoration projects in their portfolio, Budapest’s creative Színes Város (Colorful City) crew is back in action. The organization was recently assigned to add a final touch to a sacred Óbuda landmark by adorning one side of the 221-year-old church with a 300-square-meter mural, as the concluding step of the major renovation works that involved the building’s complete reconstruction, including installing proper heat insulation and finding a suitable solution to flooding that affected the building’s basement. The new mural was applied on the building’s wall by contemporary artist Lajos Veszeli, and it is based on paintings by Károly Kós – best known as the masterful designer of Budapest’s beautiful Wekerle Estate neighborhood – reflecting the folk art of Hungary’s Transylvanian culture.