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

■ View oh the church

with the parsonage

and staggered fapade relate the red-brick coated church, which was raised in 193°—3>> to the achievements of Baroque ecclesiastical architecture, such as Dresden’s Hofkirche. Joined to the rotund central area is an altar space with a flush closure and a massive tower whose almost solid walling is only broken through by some elongated windows. The tower is placed in the end of the longer sides of the plot, which forms an acute-angled triangle, and features a dome roof, below which there used to be a bell-clock on each of the tower’s four sides. It is on the street-side front of the tower where the large gate, accessible via some steps, can be found. Passing beneath the gilded inscription A mighty fortress is our God above the main entrance, the visitor reaches the porch from where stairs lead to the gallery on either side; through the swing-door in front, the interior of the church can be entered. Covered by a flattened dome, the round and light church body has an intimate atmosphere. On the wall opposite the entrance and above the yellowish-brown marble altar there is a 1940 copy of Anthonis van Dyck’s Chriót on the Croóó framed in orders of arches.

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