The Church
of the Reformed
It
was in 1793 that Tata's Calvinists were allowed to build their church on
a site opening from Kocsi Street. Protestantism in Tata first appeared
among the castle's soldiers, in the second half of the 16th century. Calvinist
families, too, settled in the town and the region at that time. Depending
on the landowner Csákis' pleasure, they were even allowed to use the church
on the main square. They developed their school near the church into a
secondary school and later, rescuing Komárom's college here, into college
with faculties of arts and theology. In 1744 the new landowner, Catholic
Count Esterházy sent word to minister Benedek Berta with his agent that
he had closed the school down.
However, even that could not affect the Calvinists' religious life. The
church, which was finished in 1793, helped the Reformed to preserve their
religion....
