Matits Ferenc: Protestant Churches - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)
workshop of Miksa Róth (1865-1944) provide ideal illumination. The pirogranite covering was produced in the Pécs Zsolnay Factory. Built together with the church, the parsonage includes a conference hall and an office downstairs and flats upstairs. As commemorated by a bilingual marble plaque on the church-wall, Hungarian children were taken to the Netherlands by the Child-welfare League of Holland in the period of deprivation following World War I. The street was named Vilma in honour of Queen Wilhelmina as an expression of Hungary’s gratitude to the Dutch people, while the vocational school within the complex was given the name Julianna School as an homage to the queen's daughter. In his monograph on Aladár Árkay, Balázs Dercsényi points out that"... the arrangement o|j the church's ftapade is not unknown in the history oft Art- Nouveau architecture. The Tampere cathedral, built by Sonck Lars between 1901 and 1907, is similar in its mass and proportions. Even some oft its architectural details, such as its portal, are similar. Despite that, Árkay does not copy any Finnish model but draws inspiration, which enables him to initiate the progress oft modern Hungarian church art.” Hungary's artists, and ■ Church interior with the Lord's table, the pulpit and the organ 45
