St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Marcelháza
Building, structure
The Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist, originally built in the Gothic style, in the village of Kurtakeszi, was badly damaged in the 1731 earthquake. The church was renovated in 1901 and 1986. Part of the old building was used for the renovation. The church is a single-nave building with a polygonal-closed sanctuary and a huge, protruding tower in the western part. The oratory of the Baranyay family, which became a sanctuary, was later added to the western side. The facades are smooth, divided only by semicircular or pointed windows. The vault of the sanctuary has delicate rococo stucco decorations: the eye of God, stars and moon-shaped decorations. The side altars of the Heart of Jesus and the Virgin Mary were made in the 1860s. In the garden of the Catholic church, there is a memorial cross originally erected in memory of the Catholic victims of World War I, which was later supplemented with a list of those killed in World War II, as well as a memorial statue of Saint Florian, the patron saint of firefighters, which was erected in 2016 to honor the 130th anniversary of the founding of the volunteer fire department.