Matits Ferenc: Protestant Churches - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)
The gilded and carved organ was placed on the gallery opposite the entrance in the rectangular, single-nave church body. The baldachin-topped pulpit, which is half-way down the south wall, is also a richly carved piece of the interior furnishing. In front of this stands the sacrificial table on a small platform. Three windows are cut through each longitudinal wall on the south and the north, and the organ on the west is flanked by two oval windows placed in a landscape position. The gallery above the main entrance and the portal on the right are the result of a recent reconstruction job. The church, which has a seating capacity of 620, was consecrated on 27 August 1786. The tower protruding from the facade was added in 1788. The smaller, 300-kilo, bell was also made in 1788, while the other one, weighing twice as much, was installed the following year. The school by the church was raised in 1791 but had to be rebuilt after the great Danube flood of 1838. Thanks to its higher position, the church survived the disaster without any serious damage and the surrounding population rendered homeless by the flood found refuge here. Relief arriving from various European countries covered the costs of renovating both the church and the school. From 1845, Lutheran services were also held in the church. The organ was made in 1848. In 1878 the flat-topped stone tower received a cap of wooden structure. To the north of the church in a yard surrounded by a stone-and-wood fence and an ornamental gate stands the church house. This was built by Dezső Zru- meczky to plans by Károly Kós (1883—1977) in 1908, simultaneously with the latter’s Zebegény church. On the first floor of the puritanical main front there is a balcony made of a carved and painted wooden structure in accordance with the style of the fence. The two-storey house stands on a base of stone and features stained-glass windows. The congregation hall can be found in the court-yard wing of the building. The Calvinist Church in Kálvin tér No. 7 Kálvin tér, District IX At the 1796 Pest convocation where the entire Calvinist population of Hungary was represented, the heads of the Danube-valley, the Transdanubian, the Western Tisza and Eastern Tisza dioceses accepted the momentous proposal moved by Gedeon Ráday according to which "The Pest pariik of the Reformed Church ihall be the centre of the entire Calviniit population oft Hungary." The assembly also decreed that the congregation shall petition the municipality for a site 35
