Kálvin Square Reformed Church - Kálvin Square Reformed Church

One of the beige islands :-)

Quality active and open community. There is also a service at 6pm on Thursday evenings. Their pastors are good and knowledgeable. Their speeches are thorough and interesting. Concerts and choir. I highly recommend it!

The Calvin Square Reformed Church in Budapest is the most famous church in the capital of the Reformed Church. The largest Reformed church in Budapest. The church was built in the Classicist style from 1816 to 1830 according to the plans of Hild Vince. Its architectural curiosity is that it was originally designed with two towers. The two separate foundations of the two towers, which were never built, were actually completed, and the tower in the middle rests on the inner edges of these two separate foundations. The organ, completed a year later, is the work of the Deutschmann company in Vienna, renovated and enlarged in 1891 by the Angster company in Pécs. The foyer, which was closed with a columned tympanum, was built after the restorations after the flood of 1838, and the side galleries were built between 1854 and 1855, according to the plans of József Hild, donated by the English-born Countess Sarolta Zichy Emmanuel Strachan. For he testified that part of his property should be used for the construction of the galleries. The church gained its present image in 1859 with the construction of the tower helmet. On the windows of the Kálvin Hall on the south side, Miksa Róth's series of glass paintings depicts Christian symbols and famous Reformed church historians - János Kálvin, István Bocskai and Gábor Bethlen. Rising high from the main façade of the church is the chunky tower ending in a mace ornament. From the foyer, two staircases lead up to the galleries. An elliptical dome rises in the middle of the vaulted vault of the monumental interior. On the ground floor, a railing separates the place of the presbyters, in the middle of which stands the Lord's table. The speaker above the pulpit is the work of József Hild. The white surfaces of the church interior are decorated with gilded stucco. The original large bell of the church was cast in 1833 by Henrik Eberhardt. Between 1933 and 2006, this bell rang every noon on Petőfi Radio. Unfortunately, it cracked in 1980. Today's big bell was made in the same year, in the workshop of Lajos Gombos. Like its predecessor, it has a sound of 1,050 kg. It is currently the only bell of the church, its two other smaller bells (approx. 500 and 250 kg) were requisitioned during World War I, they have not been re-cast since, there is no room for them in the tower, as the tower was built with a steel structure during the construction of the M4 metro line. confirmed.

The temple is beautiful from the outside. I didn't come home. But I advise you to do it if time permits. I recommend.