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

■ Church interior with the chorus and the organ

When Mihály Pollack died in 1855, architectural work on the Deák tér church was taken over by József Hild. Hild, who was one of the best-known architects of his time, began his work by filling the empty site between the church and the parsonage, and then he proceeded to restore the church itself. This was when the building received its present fayade and its main front with its Doric columns.

The assembly decreed the renovation of the roofing first in 1867, then again in 1875. During the second reconstruction, the barrel vault of the church was replaced with a cavetto vault by architect Károly Benkó, under whose direction the facade was also altered. The tower, which had been raised without foundation walls, had become dangerous and was therefore pulled down. The cross that had been on the belfry was now placed on the gable.

The temporary school building was replaced by a new one built next to the Deák tér church; it was here that school children and later secondary-school students, too, were taught from 1818. In 1861, the neighbouring building of the "army bakery" was purchased, and on its 740 square-yard site a new building

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