Prakfalvi Endre: Roman Catholic Churches in Unified Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)

The Parish Church of St. Michael, 1941

The parish was established in the 1920s on the outskirts of Budapest, in the neighbourhood of a garden-city estate and schools commissioned for its employees by the National Social Security Institute (OTI).

The church is a free-standing, slightly protruding, cross-aisled building with a mock-basilican layout where the narrow aisles only provide easy passage, their windows providing light for the interior. The undivided spatial arrangement was modelled on the Városmajor church.

The nave is segmented by stylised pointed arches of reinforced concrete. The chancel has a flush closure and is covered by pointed barrel vaults intersected by a groin vault. To the left on the ground-floor level of the tower there is the sacristy with the space confined by a glass wall also ending in a pointed arch. It was against this background that the bishop’s throne or iedile was arranged. The church is covered by an open, saddle roof. The ceiling of the nave is composed of alternating staggered wooden beams that follow the inclination of the roof and horizontally plastered plains in between; the lower aisles are covered with a level roof.

What is particularly noteworthy about the building are the proportions of the masses and the well-balanced segmentation of the wall-surfaces, rather than the "superfluous decorations” still (or once again) appearing on the construc■ View oh the church {rom the northeast

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