Matits Ferenc: Protestant Churches - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)
the end of 1947 on, the Calvinists of Outer Kelenföld held their services in the gymnasium of the school at No. 141 Bartók Béla út, from where they moved to another two schools, one at No. 158 Bartók Béla út, the other at No. 138 Németvölgyi út in Farkasrét. The congregation of the latter at first, from 1949, rented, together with the Lutherans of the district, a house for liturgical purposes. Later, in 1962, they bought the property and then turned it into a house of prayer in 1964, from which date they have used the building together with their Lutheran brethren to this day. Donated by Mrs László Kadlencz, a no-kilo bell was set up in 1987 in a belfry standing in the garden of the Farkasrét house of worship. After lengthy preparations, the two church communities decided to have the old building demolished and a new one raised on the same plot. Started on 8 April 1994 to plans by László Benczúr, the construction went ahead at a quick pace to be concluded with a consecration ceremony held by bishops Dr. Lóránt Flegedüs of the Calvinist and Imre Szebik of the Lutheran church. In the basement of the church, whose external appearance is reminiscent of a villa, there is an auditorium as well as auxiliary rooms. Above the entrance is a gallery. Donations to facilitate the work of construction arrived from two congregations in Switzerland with the help of Hans Maurer, a Swiss pastor. The house of worship used to function in a former blacksmith's and cooper’s workshop on the 2740-square-yard plot on Bartók Béla út, acquired in 1950. Big companies began to erect their head offices around the house of worship, which had become inadequate by the late 1970s. The Calvinists managed to exchange their plot for another one as well as sufficient funds to start the construction work. The foundation stone was ceremonially laid on the new, 2000-square-yard plot in Ildikó tér on 30 September 1979. The hexagonal church building was designed by István Szabó, a winner of the prestigious Ybl prize for architects. Its weight carried by a light structure, the oblique prism of the building stands on a metre-high concrete foundation. The rail of the structure, painted white, supports the building, which is covered, except for the slanting roof, by a two-layered corrugated aluminium sheet. Sandwiched between the sheets of aluminium is a layer of fibreglass insulation. The building was originally covered with glass sheets segmented by metal lamellae, but as this did not live up to expectations, the glass was replaced with polycarbonate, a translucent plastic, when the roofing was renovated in the summer of 2002. It is through this surface that natural light illuminates the church interior. The pulpit, raised on four stairs, and the mass of the Lord's table are covered with dark blue tiles. The ceiling of the interior is 15 metres from the floor at its 64
