The Hungarian Parliament Building (lit. "House of the Country" or "House of the Nation"), commonly called the Parliament of Budapest due to its location, is a well-known landmark in Hungary, the seat of the National Assembly, and a well-liked tourist site in Budapest. It is located on Kossuth Square on the Danube's eastern bank in the city's Pest neighborhood. It was built in 1902 in the neo-Gothic style by Hungarian architect Imre Steindl. Since its completion, it has stood as Hungary's largest structure. Vienna's gothic City Hall impacted the Hungarian parliament building's architectural style, while the Maria vom Siege church in Vienna inspired the cupola and other renaissance features.Constructed in the Gothic Revival style, the Parliament Building features a central dome and a symmetrical façade. The architecture of the dome is Renaissance Revival. With two similar parliament halls on either side of the structure, the parliament is likewise essentially symmetrical from the inside. The Hungarian National Assembly still meets in one of the two halls, while celebrations, meetings, and tours are held in the other. It is the largest building in the nation since it was built, measuring 268 meters (879 feet) in length and 123 meters (404 feet) in width.Ten courtyards, thirteen passenger and freight elevators, twenty-seven gates, twenty-nine stairs, and 691 rooms—including more than 200 offices—are all part of its interior. With the founding of the Principality of Hungary in 896 after the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, its 96-meter (315-foot) height alludes to the alleged nation's millennium in 1896. Before the MOL Campus was completed in 2021, it was one of the two tallest structures in Budapest, along with Saint Stephen's Basilica.
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