Fából és deszkából. A miskolci Deszkatemplom (Miskolc, 1999)

A Deszkatemplom története (összegzés angolul)

white, blue and red painted shutters and board frames. The shingles were green in colour. The organ was built on the balcony in 1951 as a exhibition piece of the Rieger organ factory. Since the dedication of the church, it has undergone several major renovations, as well as minor paintwork and modernization projects. The congregation has also worked on the grounds surrounding the church. Throughout the history of the church, the security and fire protection of the building was always on the agenda, but despite all concern, inspections and protective measures, the Deszka church burnt down on the night of 3-4 December, 1997. From 1949, the Deszka church began its life as an independent congregation. Its pastors, István Szilágy, György Benke, and the present pastor Péter Kádár, have striven not only for numerical growth, but also for qualitative, spiritual growth. They have cared as faithful pastors for the congregation, which has grown to be among the major Hungarian Reformed congregations. The members, workers and intellectuals, young and old fill the church every Sunday. By the second half of the 1990s, the congregation had already outgrown the church building, and it was often necessary to hold two Sunday morning services. After 1949, when the Soviet style system was being implemented, the Reformed believers worked out different strategies for survival. It can be said that even during the most difficult times, the congregation of the Deszka church led a very active spiritual life. It participated in the mission movement taking place at the time in the Tiszáninnen Reformed Church District - a church district which was no foreigner to such missionary movements. The most prominent representatives of this movement were outstanding personalities of the Reformed churches in Miskolc: Andor Enyedy, István Farkas, József Nagy, Lajos Kóris, István Szilágyi and György Benke. This volume, using the „oral history" method, describing personal recollections, attempts to discover the events of the past 50 years. It closes with a study of the cemetery surrounding the church, which also includes the histories of those people buried there that were influential in the city of Miskolc. The cemetery, as the burial ground of the „New City" of Miskolc, is