Matits Ferenc: Protestant Churches - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)
The arrangement of the liturgical space is different from that envisioned by the 1931 and 1936 designs. The pews have been installed in such a manner that all worshippers are seated opposite the pulpit. The pulpit and the clerical pews are decorated on their front panel with the tulip motif of Hungarian folk art. Although consecration of the church had already been performed by Bishop Dr. László Ravasz, due to the vicissitudes of the war the tower was only completed in 1949. On the north-eastern corner of the building, where the second tower of the original designs was meant to stand, there is the single-floor pastoral office from where the liturgical space can also be accessed. The Calvinist Church of Remembrance No. 90 Üllői út, District Vili During the First World War the deployment of war technology developed and manufactured by the military industry, such as tanks, machine guns, airplanes, torpedoes, grenades, large-range artillery pieces and poison gas, resulted in a significant rise in casualties. The four years of the war saw unprecedented losses in human life for all warring nations including Hungary. The survivors raised monuments and installed memorial plaques listing the names of war heroes all over the country to give expression to their affection and respect for the victims of war. The Calvinists of the civil servants' garden city held religious services in various temporary locations around the turn of the century. During the war their hall of worship was converted by the Red Cross into an auxiliary military hospital where 1500 wounded soldiers were treated. In 1921 the Calvinist tenants of the garden city decided to pay homage to the fallen heroes of the war by raising a memorial church. Their presbyters intended to build the church and a parsonage on an empty plot in Üllői út near Rezső tér. At its December 1924 assembly, the municipality of Budapest decided to allot a 4200-square-yard plot to the parish. In the following 15 years, practically until the completion of the church, money to cover the costs was continually collected. Besides conventional means of raising funds, unorthodox methods were applied, such as the sale of brick tickets, fasting vouchers and "pedestrian tickets" (whereby public transport fares were paid into the church fund) in memory of the privations suffered by the heroes. The nation-wide campaign was a success. The proceeds of numerous 57
