Evangélikus templom
As you come up to the Evangélikus templom on Templom utca, you’re stepping into a landmark Lutheran story in Sopron—this is the third-largest Lutheran church in Hungary, and a major centre for the Evangelicals of Transdanubia. The first Lutheran wooden church here was built in 1676, but it was lost to the great Sopron fire. A second wooden church stood from 1677 to 1722, and then the congregation moved on to a stone church, again staying on this same site from 1722 to 1782. In 1782, Emperor Joseph II’s “toleration” decree enabled the *fourth*, present church to be built with imperial approval between 1782 and the end of 1783—though it couldn’t sit directly on the streetfront because a rectory stood in front, and the rear wall touched the old city wall. …
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