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

■ The main Japade

oj the church

apertures on either side. Similarly to the church itself, the faqades of the two apartment blocks have quarry-stone pediments and quoins. A few steps lead to the six-column portico of the main front. Above this there rises on a square ground- plan a tower capped with a pyramid. It is here that the two bells— a 396-kilogram one tuned A and another tuned F and weighing 820 kilos—are suspended.

Using state-of-the art static technology and reinforced concrete, István Medgyaszay, one of the outstanding figures of twentieth-century Hungarian architecture, designed a church with a groundwork in the shape of a perfect square. In the middle of that stands the Lord's table, behind which is the pulpit with a 24-register electric organ acquired in 1937. The superb carving of the pulpit, which is topped by a crown and which can be reached by a flight of steps on either side, as well as the Lord's table, invokes the motifs of Hungarian folk art. The pews centring on the middle from three directions and the gallery above the entrance have a combined seating capacity of 700. On either side there is a row of painted windows and the light church interior is covered by a plain wooden ceiling of carved beams with boards in between. In the basement there is a congregation hall and a theatre auditorium.

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