Reformed church, Budapest District VII, Reformed church in Budapest District VII, Hungary
The Reformed Church of Fasor stands on the southeastern side of Városligeti fasor in District VII, designed by Aladár Árkay and built in 1910–1912. Its asymmetric main facade has a triangular gable with a row of five slit windows, a box-like entrance porch with a pointed-arch doorway, and two flanking towers: a taller square one with a pyramidal helmet and a lower curved one with a double cupola. Inside, a Greek-cross space is covered by a 13.7-metre hemispherical dome, with galleries on three sides and the organ above the pulpit and communion table.
Aladár Árkay designed the church in 1910–1912 for the Reformed congregation of the Városligeti fasor. Most of the construction funds came from Adolf Laky, who received a bust in the church garden, sculpted by Béla Reith. The one-storey L-shaped parsonage with the congregation hall and pastoral office was attached to the church's eastern corner.
The three painted glass windows in the cross arms were made by Miksa Róth, and the pews, stalls and metal light fittings by Kovács Zsigmond and Miákits Károly. The Zsolnay pyrogranite cladding, inspired by Hungarian folk art, covers the interior's stressed surfaces: gallery parapets, barrel ribs and the back wall of the pulpit niche.
The church stands on the southeast side of Városligeti fasor in District VII, its main facade opening directly onto the pavement through a stone-and-metal fence that curves inward. The one-storey L-shaped parsonage adjoins the eastern corner, with the congregation hall and pastoral office on the ground floor. The Julianna Reformed Grammar School and Primary School lies behind the building.
Adolf Laky, whose bust by sculptor Béla Reith stands in the garden before the parsonage, covered most of the construction costs. The church interior holds around a thousand worshippers, and the joinery was made by Zsigmond Kovács, the metalwork and light fittings by Károly Miákits.
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