Prakfalvi Endre: Roman Catholic Churches in Unified Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)
The Church of the Holy Spirit, 1943
Father and son also designed the interior decoration —the lights, the pulpit and the holy-water font. The Calvary by the main entrance and the statue of St. Michael on the rear wall of the chancel are the work of Tibor Vilt (1941). Michael’s painted figure carved into linden wood holds, in his right hand, the sword of judgement pointed to the ground, while with his left he raises the Eucharist above his head. Painted on the wall on either side of the statue there are three angels holding a ribbon inscribed with the words-. God almighty, order your holy angel to lay our sacrifice before Your highness on Your celestial altar. The World Eucharistic Congress in 1938 is commemorated by a glass painting behind the iedile made by József Palka to drawings by Flajnalka Fuchs Kontuly "in the trying year of 1946". The Church of the Holy Spirit, 1943 No. 28 Máriaremetei út, Remetekertváros, District II Tome Divine Holy Spirit / Pour out your heavenly / Radiance on m entirely" (Hymn, 1859) The church was built to designs by Jenő Kismarty-Lechner in 1938-43. Funds needed to finance construction were raised by selling burial-sites in the crypt. (Here lie the remains, among others, of József Huszka, a prominent collector of Transylvanian folk art.) The crypt serves as a raised substructure supporting the building that stands on a hillside. The stately mass of the construction with its hipped, saddle roof and prism-shaped tower (the construction of the latter being delayed by wartime shortages of reinforced concrete) above the sacristy is outlined against a landscape of the garden city which developed around the end of Hűvösvölgyi út in the 1930s. A broad flight of stairs gives access to the projection of the triple doorway set in a high and slim arch. Of the Hungarian saints whose figures were envisaged to stand on the brackets, only the statues in the middle, those of Stephen and Ladislas, sculpted by Mihály Pál, can actually be seen here (SS Imre and Elizabeth could not be finished.) The wrought-iron inscriptions on the door wings address the Holy Spirit, remind us of Golgotha, and beg St. Joseph, patron saint of workers, for help. The three-aisled, reinforced concrete structure has no transept but its plane- ceilinged space can accommodate two thousand believers. The nave, which is
