Matits Ferenc: Protestant Churches - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)

tuated by a Corinthian colonnade and a central tower according to designs submitted by Krausz in 1797. That was when Mihály Pollack (1773-1855) arrived in Pest from a four-year stay in Italy. The architect had started to study his profession in his native Vienna and later moved to Italy where he was apprenticed to his own brother, Leopoldo Pollach, who worked in the last third of the 18th century as a leading architect of Milan. Pollack was employed as Krausz's site architect, and when his supervisor died, the 25-year-old Pollack was hired to complete the church as the first commission he had ever received in Pest. The talented young architect drew up new designs according to which the construction of the church commenced, after the laying of the foundation stone

■ Church interior with the altar, the baptismal hont and the pulpit

on 31 October 1799. (Mihály Pollack created 193 buildings all over Hungary between 1799 and 1843, including such outstanding ones as the National Museum of Hungary, the Károlyi Mansion and the Sándor Mansion.)

The new church design created by Pollack was based upon the concept of a rectangular nave church. Discarding the Baroque features of Krausz’s design, Pollack dispensed with the semicircular termination of the apse together with the row of buttresses designed to support the gallery. The nave thus created was 33 metres long, 18.2 metres wide and 14.8 metres high on the inside. The walls he articulated with buttresses ending in gilded capitals, between which he placed

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