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

■ Church interior with the two galleriei

and with money raised from donations. Architects Gyula Dabasi Halász and Sándor Győry were commissioned to prepare designs for the building. The interior design was ordered from applied arts teacher Károly Bodon, who employed a Hungarian folk style in his high-quality work. Sculptor Béla Ohmann (1890—1968) also took part in the execution of the project. Construction work was carried out at a continually rapid pace after the foundation stone was ceremonially laid on 12 November 1939. As a result of thorough preparations the consecration of the church was performed within a year, on 15 September 1940.

Across from the entrance of this centrally appointed, ten-metre high church interior, which includes the mezzanine, the first and the second floors, stands the Lord’s table. Behind the baldachin-topped pulpit are the pipes of the organ filling all the two-storey high space available. One cannot help being affected by the harmony of the space and the furnishing or the pious atmosphere emanating from the Puritanical simplicity of the whole interior. The items of church

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