Matits Ferenc: Protestant Churches - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)
entrance accentuated with a small front structure in the triangle of the main front is a rosette and then two pairs of smaller lancet windows flanking a larger one. The central space of the church is covered by a dome raised on a decagonal drum, whose tower was meant to rise above the belfry according to the original plans. The upper part of the drum is decorated with a row of Gothic-style dummy windows beneath which are five large round windows letting natural light pour inside. The church, covered with tiles made in the Pécs Zsolnay factory, is a valuable addition to the skyline of the Danube bank and Buda Castle. The Lord's table surrounded by a wrought iron rail, the baptismal font, the pulpit and the pews were all designed by Pecz himself. The altar was placed in the centre of the church on a pedestal surrounded by a decagonal iron rail beneath the dome. Opposite the opening door of the rail, which was designed by Ede Alpár, stands a baptismal font carved by Sándor Hauszmann. Hauszmann also made, of stone, the sacrificial table, which was paid for by Minister of Agriculture Dr. Ignácz Darányi. The pentagonal pulpit leaning against the wall can be found at the meeting point of the two western foils opposite the entrance. A Gothic arch was placed on the crown above the stone-pillar-supported pulpit. The coloured windows of the church were made from donations provided by Countess Sándor Teleki, Prime Minister Kálmán Tisza, his brother Count Lajos Tisza and József Vida. The cock roosting at the top of the tower was paid for by Lajos Tisza, the head of the construction committee. Consecrated in the year of the millenary celebrations, the church sustained severe damage in World War II. Its reconstruction was carried out between 1945 and 1950. The students of Samu Pecz paid homage to the memory of their master by erecting a memorial fount in neo-Gothic style at the south-western corner of the square. The Church of Thanksgiving on Pozsonyi út No. 58 Pozsonyi út, District XIII Called on by the central presbytery of the church to organise the Calvinist believers of Outer Leopold Town in 1920, pastor Pál Fövenyessy established his pastoral office in a school at No. 21 Váci út. He held services in the gymnasium of the school from where he also looked after the poor of the area. It was also here that he managed the distribution of clothing and food aid received from the American Red Cross and Dutch Protestants. As part of a programme admin49
