Chapel, Gyilkos-tó

The small chapel, conceived with a timber-beam structure and a shingled roof, would have stood on a stone plinth. The rectangular ground plan, to which an open porch is attached at the entrance, is terminated by a half-hexagonal apse. A small tower rises directly from the roof above the entrance. The windows are larger than those typically found on traditional buildings.

In its overall configuration, the chapel closely resembles the simple wooden churches found in Transylvania, such as the Romanian churches of Kalotaszeg (for example, Oláhbikal or Türe, the latter now relocated to the Bucharest Open-Air Village Museum).

When writing about the church at Türe, Kós himself suggested that these structures also recall the earliest churches of the Hungarians. Indeed, there are clear parallels between the most elementary log houses and the simplest church buildings. During the First World War, a military chapel—probably designed by one of Kós’s contemporaries (such as Medgyaszay)—was erected by the lakeside; this structure was destroyed by fire in 1917.