Szeged Here We come

We made an overnight stop in Budapest to pick up some "Humanitarian things" for the Szeged Branch Young Single Adults to give to an homeless shelter in Szeged.  There were eating items, sheets, and pillowcases. 

When we got there the Cromars, the couple on the left were there.  The Adams' couple, in the middle, were our hosts.  They took us to a town outside of Szeged where they have a museum of the communist occupation.  

These statues go down to the bottom, and you can see the feet below.

There were a lot of statues.

The museum talked a lot about what the communists did to destroy families and moral of the people.  

These are pictures of people who lost their lives from there.

Another statue. ( just in case you didn't know it.)

That night, after the Cromars left, we walked around a bit.  These are a few of the night pictures we took.

There was a bunch of vendors with their shops set up.  We walked around it a bit.

These are just a few of the interesting building we walked past the next day.

I love how ornate they are.

Especially this one!

I love the parks. 

This is where the sister missionaries live.  It is called the "Pink Palace." 

This is the Catholic Church in Szeged.  Following are pictues taken of it.

This tower is what remained after a flood in the late 1800's.  So they built the new church pictured above.

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This used to be "the Water Tower" in Szeged.  They have refinished it and it is no longer used for water storage.

This tower is the only part of the original church that was not destroyed in the late 1890's by a flood. Actually 60% of the city of Szeged was destroyed by that flood. 

These two pictures above were taken outside of the Catholic Church.  I would really like to understand the significance of them.  

 They also had a flood in the early 2000s.  The water was just about a foot below the arch where the cars are going through beneath that bridge.  It's hard to imagine how much water that must be since all of the land around here is very flat. 

Now on to the Jewish Syn agog.

Naturally we had to pay to go there, PLUS the men had to put on a skull cap.

This is a partial list of Jews who were destroyed during the Holocaust.  It is sobering to think that each names represents one person taken to the concentration camps to be destroyed. 

This is what I LOVE about Europe, as especially Hungary.  The churches are certainly ornate, which tends to suggest where their priorities are.  I sure like to go in and look around.