Building the walls

Floor & isolation

On 19th of September we have started to concrete the floors.

"Joint Task Force"

We have also started to isolate the foundations, but the rain stopped us...

Preparations for the floor

We have unloaded the soil outside the walls and leveling the floor with balast. Soon we will isolate and concrete the floor.

Clapping shovels...

There is room for everyone ...

"Moving every rock..."

Behind bars... behind grids...

Heavy terrain ...

Construction area, view from the church tower. The bricks and mud-bricks are ready for the walls.

Unloading bricks

We have been unloading some bricks on Sept. 2.

Starting with 6 persons, finishing with 15. We have unloaded a truck of bricks within 2 hours.

30 cubic meters of brick, 1736 pieces on 28 racks. An average of 115 bricks for every person.

Some took one...

... the strongers two ...

... the younger even three ...

... and the youngest also helped us ...

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)