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

The ground plan oh the church

Theophil Hansen (1813-91). The buildings of the Austrian Parliament and the palace housing the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts can be mentioned among the monumental buildings designed by Hansen. On his return to Budapest, Pecz worked in association with Frigyes Schulek on construction work related to the (Matthias) Church of the Virgin Mary in the Castle District. He was employed by the studio of Alajos Hauszmann for the same length of time, before joining the staff of the Department of Public and Medieval Architecture at the University of Technology in 1882. As a professor of the university, Pecz made designs for several churches, such as the Calvinist Church of Dévaványa (which was not eventually built to his first-prize-winning plans) in 1884; a building complex in Nagy Ignác utca for the Unitarian congregation containing a church in 1885, and the Debrecen Calvinist church in Kossuth utca the same year. In 1890 he won a split first prize at a competition for the parish church of Elizabeth Town, Budapest.

The church built between 1886 and 1888 in Debrecen was introduced by Pecz in the Bulletin oj the Hungarian Engineers’ and Architects’ Association in the year construction work was concluded. It was his ideal of a Calvinist church

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