A History of Central Eastern Europe

REFORMÁTUS TEMPLOM
Petőfi Sandor
The Hungarian Reformed Church was formed in 1557
based on writings of MARTIN LUTHER (1483 – 1546) and
JOHN CALVIN (1509 – 1564). It would take about 4
decades before a congregation of that church was
established in Sátoraljaújhely despite being the location
where LUTHER’S ideas were first introduced to the
citizens of Hungary. The present church building was
built in the Louis XVI style between 1784 and 1789 and
remodeled in 1889. The religion has gone by many
names as several different sources have contributed to its
creation. The church was called the Sátoraljaújhely
Calvinist Church for the period covering the early years
of the 19th century. Local and national celebrity
KAZINCZY FERENC was superintendent of the church
from 1814 to 1818. This is the second largest religion in
Hungary with congregations world-wide.
SVENT ISTVÁN RÓMAI KATHOLIKUS TEMPLOM
Széchenyi-tér
SVENT ISTVÁN RÓMAI
KATHOLIKUS TEMPLON on
Széchenyi-tér serves as the
Roman Catholic mother
church for the area. The
edifice, which was built in
1768, was remodeled after
the Baroque style in 1792.
This place of worship was
the first place MARTIN
LUTHER spoke to the
Hungarian public on his
then-radical views.
JUDAISM
This area of the kingdom
had a history of tolerance
and the Jewish residents
accounted for a significant
portion of the population; in
1900 one-third of the town’s
inhabitants were Jewish.
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