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

■ The weitern hront oh the church

istered from Holland, a hundred children were given regular meals in the year 1923 and another hundred in 1924.

Before the completion of its new church, the presbytery of the parish built a hall of worship and parsonage on a 2600-square-yard plot at the corner of Tutaj and Pannónia Streets allotted by the metropolitan municipality. In the period after World War I, charitable donations were mainly spent on poor relief, but later money was also raised for a church construction fund. The name heading the list of contributors is that of a Dutch pastor, Vilmos Decker. Donations began to accumulate ever more rapidly from 1929. Out of its church subvention fund, the municipality of Budapest set aside 270 thousand pengős, or three years' worth of support, for the purpose of building the Pozsonyi út church. The congregation became an independent parish in 1932. At the 1935 competition inviting designs for the church, the first prize went to Imre Tóth and the second to Jenő Halászy. The presbytery jointly commissioned the two architects to draw up the definitive plans of the building. Architect Henrik Wanner was also involved in the structural execution of the project.

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