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

Between Szent István park and the Újpest Danube embankment, the location of the plot donated by the municipality is exceedingly advantageous. The monumental complex, which was a perfect match with the modern cityscape of the rapidly growing Leopold Town area of the interwar period, can be clearly seen from as many as three angles.

Construction work started in November of 1936, and the foundation stone was ceremonially laid on 25 April 1937, ten years after the registration of the first donation.

The costs of construction were drastically and unexpectedly increased by the fact that drilling tests had shown that a sufficiently solid subsoil stratum capable of supporting a huge building could only be found at depths of six, or in places eleven, metres due to subsequent layers of backfilling. One technological solution was to raise the building upon a reinforced-concrete crowning. To support that, more than three hundred iron piles, each 60 centimetres in diameter, were

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