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

During the siege of Buda, the complex was hit by several shells. It sustained the most severe damage when, on 31 December 1944, a bomb tore through the roof and exploded right in front of the altar. The windows, the doors and the pews were all shattered, the side galleries and the pulpit were torn down, the chandeliers and the organ were destroyed, and so was the altar superstructure including the altarpiece, Bertalan Székely's Christ Gives Bread, which had been brought here from the Dísz tér church.

Reconstruction work started in 1947 and the church was consecrated anew on 25 March 1948. Of the two wings behind it, only the two-storey structure housing the congregation hall and the parsonage towards Táncsics Mihály utca was renovated. It was not feasible to restore the bombed school building on the other side of the church to its original condition. The bell, also lost in the war, was replaced with a new one in 1948. The guiding principle of the reconstruction

Church interior

with the organ

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