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Rákoskeresztúr, situated in the valley of brook Rákos got its name
probably by the crusaders. Its existence is already certified by the
records written in the ages of Árpáds (1265). Scribe Lázár indicates
this inhabited land as Kerstur on the earlier map of Hungary. Early
XVIII century Hungarians and Slovakians began to settle by the
governmental order of Vienna, then from 1756 the Germans settled
here.
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The Lutherans could have built churches, chapels only since the
Edict of Tolerance issued by Joseph II. The Lutheran parish of
Rákoskeresztúr was formed as an affiliated church of the Cinkota
parish. Divine services that had begun in 1783 had taken place in
the school of the parish (in Pesti út of today), where the education
had been in three languages until the lady-landowner had a church
built at her cost. The Lutherans living in Keresztúr were carrying
themselves the construction material to their church which then was
completed in 1800. In early 1940s the pastor preached in three
languages (Hungarian. Slovakian and German).
The parish has been a mother church since 1807. The congregation had
taken up a collection for a new church twice since 1877 but the
money collected fallen victim to the First World War. The third
collection was in 1939. Then a real race started against the work
and money owing to the times of war ( first there was not enough
money, then there was a shortage in construction material). The old
church was existing till the laying of the foundation stone of the
new church was celebrated (12 October 1941). In the meantime in 1930
churches in Rákosliget, Rákoshegy and Rákoscsaba were built up.
In 1950 these three villages became one administrative unit and
these three out-parishes also united with the parish of
Rákoskeresztúr and they became a parochial unit. The old church had
been demolished in 1945 and its roof was used for the reconstruction
of the local railway station.
The parish could have saved for the new church only the bells, organ
and the altar-piece painted by an unknown painter. This, altar-piece
can be seen in the vestry-room now. The new church was dedicated by
the bishop Zoltán Túróczy on 14 November 1943.
The first worship was held by the pastor dr. Pál Kósa who built this
church. In 1948 the parish had to give up its beneficiary
plough-land then all its real estates was confiscated without any
compensation. Since that time this parish has maintained itself by
the ancient forms of contribution to charity.
This church was designated by Gyula Sándy who planned most of the
Lutheran churches built in the XX century especially round Budapest.
This church was built in a three nave “pseudobasilica" system. The
friezes on the facade and the tower ridge are the favourite forms
used by the Renaissance in upper Hungary. In the interior concrete
buttresses were built, the archways span over the middle nave, thus
supporting the wooden parquet ceiling. The raw brick walls are laid
on ragged-stone base. The facade has got a triple articulation, the
middle one contains the bell-tower with a slender spire and there is
a small stairway on each side of the bell-tower covered by small
towers. Above the entrance door there is a Luther rose in the middle
of the rose window.
The inside space is wide and harmonious, all parts of it are
original, as they did not get damaged during the second World War.
The characteristically Hungarian friezes can be seen on the
wood-carvings of the pews end pulpit. The altar-piece is a masterful
copy of the famous Golgotha painted by Matthias Grünewald for the
altar of the lsenheim church (about 1510).
The duplicate copy was painted by Munkácsy Prize and Kossuth Prize
laureate painter József Csáky Maronyák. The windows were made by the
glass painter with golden diploma József Palka (1943).
Next to the altar there is an iron globe with a cross at the top
patterned after a Finish model symbolising the world-wide mission of
the church. The globe serves as a candlestick when the candles are
lit for the memory of the dead on All Souls' day. Before the altar
there is an iron grating with a wooden shelf for the small chalices
used for the individual administration of the Holy Communion.
The baptistery was designed by Gyula Sándy, the designer of this
church. The organ was made by the famous organ making Company
Angster in Pécs in 1970. Originally it was situated in the parish of
Deák tér, then it was transferred to this church.
In the parvis of this church a memorial tablet can be seen as the
only commemorative tablet of the XVIIth district. It contains the
list of those believers of this parish who were killed in the first
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 Tervezője:
Sándy Gyula
Építés
éve: 1941-1943
Stílusa:
neoreneszánsz
Funkciója:
templom
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