Lutheran Church of Budavár
The Lutheran Church of Budavár is Buda’s oldest Lutheran church, and its story runs straight through the city’s nineteenth century—and its twentieth. The congregation’s first church in Buda was built in 1846 by Maria Dorothea, third wife of Palatine Joseph, at Dísz tér. Later, after the Ministry of Defence took over the site near Vienna Gate, a new church was built in 1895 to serve the Lutherans again. Designed by Mór Kallina, the church was consecrated in 1895 by Sámuel Sárkány, bishop of the Lutheran diocese of Bánya. Its eclectic neobaroque exterior—featuring Corinthian order-like columns and a tall, slim square tower—gives it a distinctly theatrical silhouette. During the Siege of Budapest in 1945, most of the building was destroyed by a bomb detonation; only the outer walls survived, while the altar, benches, and organ were lost. …
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