Convict

The current building was once home to two medieval townhouses. The building of the church-run secondary educational institution (convict) was completed in 1657. As the inscription above the main entrance in the axis of the facade says, the institution for the education of young Catholic nobles was founded by Zsuzsanna Balassa in 1652. After the banning of the operating Jesuit order in 1773, it became a secular seminary, a warehouse, and then a military hospital. In the 19th century, the building was renovated in the classicist style, and then a high school began operating in it. From 1886 - not counting the decades of the communist dictatorship - it has been continuously serving as a seminary until today. Pope John Paul II rested in this house during his visit to Košice in 1995. ; ; The seven-axis facade of the two-story, gable-roofed, tiled-roofed house, located in a closed row on the eastern side of the northern part of Fő Street, on the street front, is divided by huge pilasters. On both sides of its stone-framed, ground-floor entrance, there are now shops opening onto the street. The modest plastic decorations and cornices of the facade are mostly grouped around the windows.