In the city of artists, museums and churches, the churches of Szentendre open their doors to music, literature, church art and visual arts programs at the all-arts and sacred festival. The message of the Szentendre Open Church Weekend this year is "community".
The Ferenczy Museum Center will organize the Weekend of Open Churches in Szentendre again this year between September 8 and 10, the institution informed MTI.
As highlighted in the announcement, in the city of artists, museums and churches, the churches of Szentendre open their doors to music, literature, church art and visual arts programs at the all-arts and sacred festival. The message of the Szentendre Open Church Weekend this year is "community".
Source: Szentendre Open Temples Weekend Facebook
The series of events awaits those interested with varied, demanding programs: church art, religious history, architecture, local history lectures, literary programs, poems and divine poems by Radnóti and Petőfi
the museum center says in a statement.
There will be BLUE walks between the churches, a church tour on foot and by bike in the Skanzen, creative works in the church garden, the Artifact of the Year program awaits the public in the Serbian Ecclesiastical Art Museum, and there will be choir, organ, klezmer, cello and South Slavic music in several locations up.
In addition to the Ferenczy Museum Center, the local Catholic, Reformed, Lutheran, Serbian Orthodox, Jewish and Baptist religious communities, as well as the city's cultural institutions, the Hamvas Béla Pest County Library, the MANK Gallery, the Skanzen, and the Szentendre Tourinform Office are involved in the organization of the programs. also got involved. The host of the Weekend of the Open Temples in Szentendre is the artist Alma Virág Pájer.
During the weekend, at the program locations and on the social pages of the Ferenczy Museum Center
a collection is also organized for Karitász in Szentendre, the donations are used for children's summer camps.
During the festival, the programs are free, but those who can afford it can support the purpose of the collection with a donation - the museum center emphasizes in the statement.
Source: Szentendre Open Temples Weekend Facebook
The programs of the weekend can be visited with a wristband, which visitors can pick up at the program locations, and with which all the exhibitions of the Ferenczy Museum Center and the exhibition of the MANK Gallery can be viewed without an entrance ticket during the Weekend of the Open Churches in Szentendre.
More information about the programs can be found on the website https://www.facebook.com/Szentendrei-Nyitott-Templomok-Hétvégéje https://femuz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/szentendrei- available on the open-churches-festival-2023.pdf
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Cover photo: Weekend of Open Churches in Szentendre Facebook
