Short history of our church

Table cover (1772)

• 1552 – Reformation spreading in the area
  
• 1560 – the entire village is taking the Reformed (Calvinist) religion
  
• 1587 – the first religious school
  
• 1597 – the first tincan for the Communion
  
• 1600 – the first known pastor: Márton Laki
• 1634 – silver plate: donations of Miklós Pethő, Zsófia Horváth, Ferenc Geszthy and Borbála Ország
• 1638 – silver Communion cup: donation of Pál Fráter and wife, Anna Barcsai
  
• 1737 – Communion and Baptism cans: donation of Ferenc Kassai and wife, Rebeka Ionási
  
• 1765 – the Register of births, marriages and deaths starts
  
• 1772 – first known curator: Ferenc Szentmiklósi; Reformed teacher: István Ölvendi
  
• 1776 – the pastor's house is built
  
• 1778 – they stop burying around the church building
  
• 1779 – renovation of the bellfry
  
• 1784 – renovation of the ceiling of the old church
  
• 1790 – building of a bell-tower instead of the separate bellfry
  
• 1800 – the church building gains its todays form by the appendance of the western part
  
• 1802 – new pulpit and benches
  
• 1803 – tincan with the monogramm of pastor János Csécsi
  
• 1804 – silver cup made by the silver plate from 1634

Church stamp (1804)

• 1808 – first presbiterial registers
  
• 1808 – larger bell made by the one donated by Anna Fráter in 1645
• 1808 – mechanical tower clock made by György Knapp from Oradea/Nagyvarad
• 1812 – the pulpit is moved from the southern wall to the northern
• 1829-77 – the longest staying (47 years) pastor József Csécsi Nagy
  
• 1834 – the church wall cracks at the 1800 connection because of earthquake
• 1848 – Miklós Dorkó, Reformed teacher is volunteer in the revolution
• 1849 – a small bell is given for war canons
  
• 1850 – the congregation reaches its highest number ever: 2000 members
  
• 1917 – the small bell from 1802 is given for war purposes
  
• 1926 – new small bell is donated by Ferenc Nyéki
  
• 1926 – András Szakács donates a church organ in the memory of his son died in WWI
  
• 1937-40 – Vilmos Balaskó - politically convicted - being second pastor
• 1938 – the shingled roof of the tower is changed to tin, and that of the the church to tiles
• 1953-57 – the renovation of the church
  
• 1958 – WWI&II memorial plaque inside the church
  
• 1965 – electricity introduced in the church
  
• 1973 – the larger bell cracked in 1971 is remade
• 1981 – the church's latest total (inside & outside) renovation
  
• 1986 – new church benches are made
  
• 1994 – the building of the former Reformed school is given back for the church
  
• 1995 – memorial plaque for János Keserűi Dajka (1580–1633), Reformed bishop and writer
  
• 1998-99 – repairment of the church roof and ceiling
• 2004 – restauration of our church organ, rebuilding the wooden galleries
• 2005 – renovation of the church inside; electrification and automatization of the bells
• 2006-07 – renovation of the former house of the Reformed teacher
• 2008 – starting the reconstruction of the 230 years old pastor's house
  

Church building (1977)