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

■ The main entrance of the church

by a conic cap; its stairs go to the gallery. The dynamic effect of the exterior is largely due to the alternation of stone and plaster surfaces as well as the fine, artistic, sculptural decoration. Every detail, such as the doors, the windows, even the garden wall and its gate, was made with utmost attention to execution.

The interior, created according to concepts by Aladár Árkay, was meant to awe the worshipper with its exalted atmosphere. The twenty-metre high dome with an internal diameter of 13.7 metres and thus ideal acoustic properties, is supported inside the Greek-cross-shaped church body by architraves spanning 13.3 metres. These are decorated with floral motifs. The folkloristic majolica ornamentation of the main entrance is repeated around the Lord's table and the pulpit opposite the entrance. On the gallery above the crown-style box behind the pulpit is the organ with its silvery pipes, reflecting with its arrangement the mass of the booth-like structure below.

The thousand or so worshippers that the church admits can be seated in the pews in the central church body and in the galleries. The pews as well as the bronze chandelier in the middle were also designed by Árkay. The metal fittings were made by Károly Miákits, while the woodwork is a tribute to the expertise of cabinet-maker Zsigmond Kovács. The large stained-glass windows made in the

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