page_title: Sava Tekelija
section_title: Tekelijanum Palace
hierarchical_section_title: Sava Tekelija / Tekelijanum Palace
caption_attribution_description: English: Thökölyanum, Budapest. Built as a college for Serbian students. Architect: Sándor Toronyi Fellner, 1907. Magyar: Thökölyanum, Budapest V. kerülete, Veres Pálné utca 17–19. A városban tanuló szerb diákok kollégiumaként épült 1907-ben, Toronyi Fellner Sándor tervei alapján.
context_page_description: Sava Tekelija was a merchant and among the first Serbs to have defended a doctoral thesis in jurisprudence, and in particular in legal theory and philosophy in 1786 at the University of Pest; president of the Matica srpska; philanthropist; noble; and merchant. Tekelija founded in Budapest the Tekelijanum in 1838 for Serb students studying in the city. Tekelija was a big patron of the Matica Srpska and he opened a Matica library in the Tekelijanum. He is related to Peter Tekeli and Jovan Tekelija.
context_section_description: From its foundation in 1838, the seat of the Tekelijanum (Tekelianum, the endowment of Sava Tekelija) was located in an elite part of downtown Budapest (today it is at Veres Pálné utca 17-19), which was highly populated by Serbs since the end of the 17th century. The fiduciaries of Sava Tekelija's endowment made the decision to raze the old two-storey structure in 1906. On the same spot in 1907, construction was begun of a new building (with a surface area of 92,570 sq. ft.), according to the design of the architect Sandor Fellner. Construction was entrusted to the engineer Ahil Duka. Vladimir Vuković did the carpentry, Nikola Vrančić the ironwork, and the artist Nikola Stanković did the decorative painting. Numerous decorative elements of the building were overlaid with ceramics produced in the Zsolnay Factory in Pécs.
  The front facade of this monumental five-storey building is symmetrically laid out in a carefully planned rhythm of architectural elements. The vertical separation is highlighted by two dominant semi-circular porticos above which there are low-relief contoured bay windows and hanging eaves. In the center of the facade on the third floor, there is a long balcony and there are two other shorter ones on the sides of the wings on the fourth floor. All the balconies are enclosed and set on massive high-relief corbels. The magnificence of the facade is enhanced by the placement of a wide variety of types of windows: architraves, semi-circular single pane, dual pane and triple pane windows, along with a wealth of two-dimensional and unusual ornamentation along the window frames, on the capitals of the pilasters, and on the fascia and cordons of the roof. Elements of Serbian medieval architecture and of the Secessionist style - quite modern at the time of the building's design - are notable features of the building of the Tekelijanum.
caption: Tekelijanum Palace
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