Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

(Archives of Other Churches) - A Baptista Egyház Levéltára (Archives of the Baptist Church)

on Reformed Church life of the Great Plain, also with printed journals of church district and diocesan assemblies. Apart from the archival reference library the Great College Library of the Transtibiscan Reformed Church District is always at disposal. Dr. László KORMOS ARCHIVES OF OTHER CHURCHES A BAPTISTA EGYHÁZ LEVÉLTÁRA (ARCHIVES OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH) 1062 BUDAPEST, Aradi utca 48. Tel. 122-332. Archivist: Mihály ALMÁSI Baptism is a legally acknowledged confession in Hungary from 1905. Since 1873 there existed Baptist congregations continually, but there are no records earlier than that in the archives. There is no archival material on the Baptists of the 1848 fight for freedom, or on the Anabaptists settled in Hungary in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The archives were founded in 1948 by the ecclesiastical author Bertalan A. KIRNER from the material collected by him for the purpose of a jubilee religious exhibition of that year. Later records of church government and of ecclesiastical provenance were added to the collection. The archives are supervised by the Commission for Church History. The archival material totals 24 running metres. Of the records of church government the journals of the presidium of the Baptist Church, of the yearly assembly of report and the four-yearly assembly of election are continuous from the year 1912. The records of official administration, the correspondence at home and abroad are preserved from 1896 continually. It is from this year that the economic records (budgets, account books, journals of gifts, etc.) are in archival custody.