Matits Ferenc: Protestant Churches - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)
was raised in 1863-64 to house a secondary grammar school which continued to function for forty years. When the secondary school was moved to the Fasor near the City Park, the building was taken over by a primary school and an upper elementary school. (Construction of the school in Deák tér and then the Fasor Secondary School was financed from a foundation made by Karolina Artner Glosius in the mid-i9th century.) The building was repeatedly bombed in World War II, and reconstruction was only concluded in 1950. Damage caused by construction of the underground railway nearby in 1973 was repaired in 1983. The church is the venue of ecclesiastical concerts when works by Johann Sebastian Bach and others are played on the organ on the second gallery. A tradition more than a decade old is that the Deák tér church is used as the venue of events in the international Bach Week held every summer. The century-old Lutherania Choir is based in the church. The Lutheran Church of Buda Castle No. 28 Táncsics Mihály utca, District I The first, neo-Classical, church of the Lutherans living in the castle district was built in 1847 ar|d stood in Dísz tér. There is little surviving documentary evidence concerning how it was built, but what is known for sure is that the third wife of Palatine Joseph, Princess Dorothy (1797-1855), who came to Buda in 1819, enthusiastically supported the cause of erecting that church. When it was decided at the end of the 19th century that a building designed by Mór Kalina (1844—1913) and belonging to the Ministry of Defence would occupy the spot in Dísz tér where the Lutheran church stood, the same Kalina was commissioned to draw up designs for a new Lutheran church and school building for Bécsi kapu tér ("Vienna Gate” Square). As the congregation wished to attend a church similar to the old one, inside as well as outside, and because the new church would have to blend into the existing architecture of the Castle District, the designs submitted by Kalina in 1894 were reminiscent of the demolished structure; hence the appearance of the new church is dominated by neoclassical and neo-Baroque features. According to an agreement made with the parish, the Ministry of Defence was not to pull down the church and school in Dísz tér before the completion of the new buildings. As the new mansion was supposed to be in place by the time of the Millenary Celebrations, the ministry pressed on with the project—quite
