Matits Ferenc: Protestant Churches - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)
The entire roofing was destroyed in World War II and its tower was damaged together with the interior. Restored from donations made by the congregation and money granted by the state after the war, the building was once again renovated in 1974. The Calvinist Church of Kőbánya No. 15 Ihász utca, District X The demand for a Calvinist church in Kőbánya first emerged in the 1880s. As well as making an important contribution to the fund raising, Endre Bereczky MD played an important part in enlisting the help of the municipality, which allotted a plot and donated funds for the construction of the church. The three- aisle brick construction was built in 1900 in neo-Gothic style to designs by Lajos Schodits (1872—1941). Only the one on the left of the two towers meant for the main front was in fact completed, with the other left incomplete. Above the portal, which is raised on a few steps, there is a rosette. There is also painted glass in the other windows of the nave-and-aisles building. The architect applied brick as an ornamental element inside the church in an original manner. The pews seating five hundred are arranged in the wide nave, near the pulpit in the narrow aisles opening on either side of the nave and on the galleries. Light pours in through the painted-glass lancet windows on the longitudinal sides above the two low-ceilinged aisles terminating in galleries. The 28-register organ, which had originally been on the gallery over the entrance, was moved to its current place above the pulpit in the 1930s. The baldachin-topped pulpit and the pastoral stall behind it are decorated with Gothic-style carvings. The original ornamental painting of the ceiling survives here and there in fragments only. The three bells of the church were consecrated on 1905. Appropriated in 1915, the smaller and the medium ones were replaced with the Dr Géza Sooi (1912-53) Memorial Bell and the Peace Bell on 12 August 2000. The largest bell, has tolled for about a hundred years calling believers to prayer. The also brick-covered single-storey building in the well-kept garden containing two congregation halls and the auxiliary rooms was built to designs by architect Károly Habicht in 1912. The building was hit by shells and mortar bombs in World War II, which tore down the ceiling. Restoration was shortly carried out, and in 1988-89 the entire roofing was replaced. 62
