Zádor Anna: Neoclassical Pest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

portico nor the interior stucco had been finished; nevertheless, services were regularly held in the church from 1830. Construction was delayed not only by insufficient funds, but also by the disorderly condition of the large square in front of the building.

Kálvin tér, the choice of location for the church, would prompt one to believe that the idea of expanding the town had already been considered in the first decades of the century. This idea acquired even greater importance due to the rapid development of the new district, Lipótváros. The size of territory which had been built on at the beginning of the century had almost tripled by the 1820s. This fact probably explains the decision to erect a more impressive and more monuThe interior of the Evangelical Chürch at Deák tér

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