Culture Palace, Târgu Mureș

The Hungarian ballad of Sára Salamon

The Culture Palace (Hungarian: Kultúrpalota) (built between 1911 and 1913) is a remarkable construction in the centre of Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely). It was built to the request of György Bernády by Marcell Komor (1868-1944) and Dezső Jakab (1864-1932).

Building

The competition for building the Culture Palace was won by Komor and Jakab with their two-floor plan. Only later to the request of mayor Bernády György the construction was expanded to 3 floors. Construction started in 1911 and lasted until 1913 when the inside decorations were completed. On the window glasses there are illustrated sequences from Hungarian legends. The roof is decorated with blue, ruddy and white tiles. On the main façade the statues and the embossments are in bronze. The Mirrors Hall can be found on the first floor of the building, and on the balustrades of the windows the portraits of Kazinczy Ferenc, Tompa Mihály, Kemény Zsigmond and more. The most interesting and visited part of the Palace is the Mirrors Hall, which is above the entrance hall. Above the 'quartet' gate the bronze embossments of Szent Erzsébet, Bolyai János and Bolyai Farkas, Aranka György and Bánk bán of Erkel Ferenc can be seen.

Uses

The inside of the palace housed the City Cinema between 1913 and 1957, the first Romanian Theatre School between 1934 and 1940, the State Theatre between 1946 and 1973, the Fine Arts and Music Secondary School between 1949 and 1970, the Academy of Fine Arts between 1932 and 1949 and the County House for Guidance of Folkloric Creation between 1950 and 1999. The Palace has also been home to the County Library since 1913.

Gallery

Exterior of the Culture Palace
Hall of Mirrors
The ceiling mural of the Culture Palace

External links

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List of places in Târgu Mureș

Places of worship	Bob Church Evangelical Church Franciscan Church Fortress Church Great Synagogue Minorita Church Nicholas Church St. Elisabeth Chapel St. John the Baptist Parish Church St. John of Nepomuk Church Small Reformed Church Unitarian Church

Historical buildings	Palace of Justice Apolló Palace Bányai House Bissingen House Bolyai House Cultural Palace Hotel and Coffee House Európa Görög House Kendeffy House Lábas House Legények House Teleki Library Teleki House Toldalagi Palace Tolnai House Hotel Transzilvánia

Statues and monuments	Bartók Béla Statue Bem Józef Statue Bolyai Farkas and János Statue Holocaust Statue Kossuth Lajos Statue Károly Kós Statue Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Statue Márton Áron Statue Sándor Petőfi Statue Pseudosphaera Statue Szentgyörgyi István Statue Székely martyrs' sculpture Zenélő kút

Other sites	Zoo Reformed Cemetery Roman Catholic Cemetery

Coordinates: 46°32′36″N 24°33′29″E / 46.54333°N 24.55806°E / 46.54333; 24.55806

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