The Lutheran church at 9 Kossuth Lajos Street, in the centre of Szentes, stands out with its fine proportions and slender, soaring tower, next to the Reformed and Orthodox churches. The church blends harmoniously into the townscape.
With its neo-Gothic, moulded-brick architecture, the Lutheran church at Luther Square was built in 1905 to a design by Imre Francsek. The church draws the eye with its excellent proportions and graceful, sky-reaching tower. The Neo-Gothic church is clad in red brick. All its windows are pointed-arched. It has four towers: the bell tower, flanked by two stair towers, and a ridge turret rising from the roof ridge. On the ground floor of the 45-metre-high bell tower is an ornate entrance, flanked by Corinthian columns, with a circular rose window above. The tower clock is situated above the twin windows of the belfry; donated by the town, it is maintained and illuminated in the evenings, and was crafted by Pál Hermann, a clockmaker from Szentes, at the same time as the church was built. Just as with the Catholic and Reformed tower clocks, this one is also maintained by Ferenc Vidovics, a clockmaker from Szentes. On either side of the gate stand two-stage buttresses.
The stair tower and the hussar towers are octagonal. The ironwork decorations adorning the church are also noteworthy: the gargoyles at the corners of the spire, and the wrought-iron ornamentation featuring plant motifs at the entrance. The side façades of the church, which runs on a north-east to south-west axis, feature four windows and five buttresses on each side. The church’s windows are made of coloured glass mosaics, depicting scenes from the life of Christ in the chancel. The slender spire, the narrow, long, pointed-arch windows, the prominent buttresses, the steep roof, the small turrets, and the rose window above the entrance all point to the most characteristic stylistic elements of Gothic architecture; at the same time, the church is the purest example of Gothic style in the area.
The church organ was donated by the late Mrs Mária Francisti, née Sulcz, in memory of her husband. The bells were also cast from donations by the congregation at the workshop of Frigyes Hőnig, a bell founder in Arad. On the southern interior wall of the church nave, a marble plaque commemorating the Lutheran heroes who fell in the First World War can be seen, framed by an Art Nouveau stone carving by the local sculptor Antal Koncz (1925).
