Via Sancti Martin

The third largest evangelical church in Hungary, it is one of the major centres of evangelicalism in Transdanubia. The first wooden Lutheran church in Sopron was built in 1676, but it was destroyed by the great fire of Sopron. The second wooden church stood from 1677 to 1722. The third church of the congregation was already a stone church and stood from 1722 to 1782. All three churches stood on the present site. In 1781, under a decree of toleration from Emperor Joseph II, the fourth church, the present church, was built from 1782 to the end of 1783 with imperial approval. It is true that the church building could not be on the street front - originally the parsonage stood in front of it, and the back wall was in contact with the old city wall. It was also a criterion that the Protestant church could not have a tower - the present beautiful, blunt-domed tower was built about a hundred years later, in 1862-1863. The church seats 2500. It is the third largest church of the Hungarian Evangelical Church after Békéscsaba and Nyíregyháza.