Српска варош Табан, на левој обали испод Будимске тврђаве

Taban was inhabited by a large Serb community, which was further enlarged after the Serbs' migration under the leadership of Arsenije Carnojevic. Serbs lived in Buda, and the city was also the seat of one of the dioceses of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The trademark of the Taban was a high bell tower with a baroque, gilded dome. Namely, Taban was known for the splendor of the Serbian Temple, erected in the mid-18th century. However, it has not been intended that the splendor of the Baroque temple be the pride of the Serbian people in Hungary for centuries. A fire broke out in the courtyard of a barrel on September 5, 1810, which destroyed most of the buildings in the town hall, and this fate did not bypass the Serbian Cathedral. The main reason for the spread of the fires was the narrow and inaccessible streets and poor quality way of building houses in Taban. After the fire, the town was restored. The cathedral church darkly resisted the ground floor and first floor houses built in the style of classicism. In the restoration of the church, the iconostasis was painted in 1824 by a prominent painter from the early 19th century, Novi Sad painter Arsenije Teodorovic. The painter addressed the parish of the Serbian Church in Taban and the very charismatic personality of Jovan Vitkovic, recommending himself for painting works as "the first kinstler of the Serbian nation". Indeed, after two years in the workshop with students, he could also boast of this iconostasis at that time, probably the largest in the Metropolitan area of ​​Karlovac. Yet, five decades later, the Cathedral Temple is facing new adversities. That 1875, the swollen creek of the Devil's Trench flowed through this town. The water level in the temple reached as much as 110 centimeters, fortunately nature has spared the iconostasis, but not the houses that collapsed at the mouth of the stream, in which place Debrentei Square would later be formed. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Erzebet Bridge was built, connecting the Pest side with the part of Buda, in which Taban is located. The new bridge has inspired city officials to plan the construction of a more modern and urban neighborhood on Tabana. Thus, Serbs from Taban were gradually displaced. Over time, the Serbian church in Taban remained at the center of the new park, and fewer and fewer Serbs inhabited this part of the city. The Second World War brought new destruction. During the siege of the city at the end of the war, the roof of the church burned down. After the war, the Serbs in Buda had no money to rebuild. After the war, this part of the Hungarian capital was restored, and the architects had some strange ideas, such as the construction of a spa complex, as this district lies on many thermal springs. The entrance to the center would be through - the church. However, none of these plans were considered. Eventually, the Serbian Baroque beauty was nevertheless destroyed in December 1949. Although the city authorities made the decision within the urban plan, an urban legend says it was done just on Stalin's birthday, December 18, as a sign of "attention" to the dictator under whose control Hungary was then. At that time, relations between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were on the verge of war, and the overthrow of the Serbian church, Stalin's honor, was a gesture of the obedience of the Hungarian authorities to Joseph Visarionovich. It is interesting that the church in Taban also became a model for churches built in Serbia. An almost identical dome of the church adorns the Cathedral Church in Novi Sad, as well as St. Nicholas Church in Ruma and the Orthodox Church in Subotica, as well as the Lutheran Church in Slovakia Around 1910, when it was only a matter of time before this city district disappeared, many artists immortalized the streets of Tabana in their paintings from Mount Gelert. A considerable number of these works have also been commissioned by the Budapest City Administration for the Museum. The favorite motif was, as could be seen in the exhibition at the History Museum, the slender figure of the tower of the Serbian Parliament Church The old Taban Serbian Cemetery was overthrown in 1930 by a city council decision. The descendants of the buried Serbs were given a deadline to transfer the ancestral bones themselves to another place. Mother Srpska was the first to react by taking care of the remains of the famous and deserving Buddhist Serbs. Those whose remains were not removed were placed in a common tomb