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

The Church of Homecoming in Szabadság tér

No. 2 Szabadság tér, District V

Standing in the banking district of Budapest this building blends smoothly into its environment of imposing seven-storey blocks with its many windows and artificial-stone facade. The only external indications of its sacral function are the portal accommodating a six-metre-wide flight of steps, the clock-tower and the star fixed to a rod at the tower-top.

The inscription Church of Homecoming has recently been mounted on the wall above the portal. Having scaled the steps, it is on the mezzanine that one can enter the 340-square-metre church.

Having been formed in the early 1930s, the Calvinist Parish of inner Leopold and Theresa Town started to erect the building in 1938, the year of the first Vienna Award, on a 196-square-metre plot received gratis from the municipality

■ The main hapade oh the bulletins incorporating the church

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