While Hui Chin and I were visiting Keszthely during 2000, we called in the the Carmelite Basilica dedicated to Little Saint Therese, in Fenékpuszta on the outskirts of Keszthely.
The large Italian Romanesque building was Bruno Bruckwieser's of Vienna design and was completed in 1930. The White Friars were in charge of the Church until 1945 when Hungary's communist regime turned it into a Parish Church and closed down the Friary. The Friars returned in 1989 and the church's status was raised to Basilica Minor. Damage to the Basilica was repaired in the late 1990's.
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