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

■ The main lapade oh the church

raised on a pentagonal groundplan and discussed in the journal that he adapted to local circumstances when preparing his competitive designs for the Fazekas tér church.

Construction work started on i July 1893 and was practically finished by the end of August 1895, except for a coat of painting to be applied inside and the landscaping of the environment surrounding the red-brick church.

The church, resting on a groundwork in the shape of a pentagon with additional foils, fronts on the river Danube. It is here that the main entrance can be found, together with the pointed belfry aspiring to the skies on the north of the church body, built together with the entrance hall on the ground floor and connected to the main church body by a small bridge at the height of the principal cornice. Resting on a square ground plan and broken through by a number of narrow Gothic windows, the cross section of the tower changes into an octagon on the second floor. Four arched clock-supporting gables are joined to the conic cap, which ends in a wrought iron point. Above the main

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