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

■ The main fapade oh the church

was acquired in 1910, for which another two competitions were announced. As these were unsuccessful, the church construction committee commissioned Aladár Árkay (1868-1932) and it was finally to his plans that construction work started in 1911. The church and the adjoining parsonage, together with the school next to it, were consecrated on 1 July 1913.

Catching the eye among the trees of the avenue is the main view of the church with its two asymmetric towers on the western front and the unique, heavily accentuated main entrance. The gate, accessible after a few steps by way of a rick-shaped opening, is surrounded by a dynamic surface supported by four squat columns and covered with coloured tiles decorated with Hungarian motifs. Above that, in the next stripe of the facade, which is bordered with a semi-circle, are larger windows, above which is a row of smaller ones on the steep gable. On the left of the main entrance rises a monumental, quadrangular, fortressshaped tower segmented by narrow double windows. Its stone cap also rests on a quadrangular base. The tower on the other side is smaller and is topped

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