Church of the House of Reconciliation
The House of Reconciliation is a church of the Evangelical Brotherhood of Hungary (MET). It is located in the Békásmegyer district of Budapest .
history
The Lutheran fraternity Hungary is a person standing on the floor of the Gospel Freikirche with Methodist beliefs. It stands in the tradition of the movement founded by the Anglican theologian and pastor John Wesley , which was constituted as an independent church towards the end of the 18th century. The Evangelical Brotherhood of Hungary came into being in the mid-1970s due to the refusal to cooperate with the system-related State Office for Church Affairs and the resulting split within the Methodist Church of Hungary . After nearly eight years of persecution, during which their churches were taken away and individual pastors were given suspended prison sentences, the state recognized the fellowship on October 1, 1981. The small church currently has approximately 3,000 members nationwide who are cared for by 10 pastors.
One of the institutions it sponsors is the John Wesley Theological College, which trains theologians, pastors, religious teachers, social workers and environmental security specialists (approx. 500 students). The church supports single parent families and runs three shelters for the homeless and a hospital for the homeless (the latter was visited in 1993 by the British Queen Elizabeth II ).
Their services were initially held in a converted, former tavern. In 1992, the city of Budapest made an area of 5,500 m² available to the community for the construction of a church and a park. After the property had been cleaned of debris and rubbish, around 1,000 trees and bushes were planted.
The construction office Bálint Nagy & Co was commissioned with the planning of the church building, the construction was carried out by the Zsigmond & Co cooperative and Tulát KG. Since the originally planned wooden church was not approved for fire protection reasons, the work could not go ahead for years. The church was completed in 1998 due to the changed construction plan and consecrated on October 1st, 1998 by Tibor Iványi, the head of the church. The costs were paid by the foundation "House of Reconciliation", the capital, the self-administration of the III. Borne district and the church.
Description of the church
The small church with an area of 500 m² proclaims the sibling of Christianity and Judaism with its symbols visible from the outside and inside - the cross and the tablets of the law of Moses . The walls of the bright, warm interior are made of bricks, the ceiling is paneled with wood. The church has the traditional cross-shaped floor plan. The benches made of fir wood are V-shaped, separated by a central aisle, and look towards the altar. At the front of the benches and the Moses chair there are stars of David , the side parts of the benches end at the top in two semicircles - reminiscent of the two tablets of the law - with a cross underneath. In the window on the right-hand side there is a menorah , the window on the left-hand side shows the “preserving ship”, above the altar are the tablets of Moses. The decoration of the sanctuary is a living vine standing behind the altar, symbolizing nature, the vines of which tend to climb on a T-shaped cross. There are stones underneath and the light streams in through a V-shaped roof window. The copper baptismal font is on the left side of the sacrament table , the pulpit on the right . Opposite the altar protrudes from the gallery, a beautiful, two-manual, old Angster organ composed of several organs . Concerts are held here on the last Monday of each month. The 80 kg bell is a gift from Holland that the municipality received through the agency of the capital.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '9.6 " N , 19 ° 4' 5.6" E