Located in the heart of the city is one of Hungary´s typical classicist buildings, which, according to Zsigmond Móricz: "faces time with its two solid towers like the Hortobágy bull".

The defiance that can be heard in the writer´s words is perfectly in line with the history of the building, as it burned down twice - in 1564 and then in 1802. He received his bell in 1636 from the Transylvanian prince György I. Rákóczi, who cast two 60-weight bells from cannon ore, and then presented one of them to Debrecen. He lost his voice in 1802 after it cracked due to the watering of incompetent hands.

Mihály Péchy major of the Faculty of Engineering was entrusted with the task of planning, but since his ideas exceeded the possibilities, the task fell into the hands of chamber architect József Thaler, who saw fantasy in the use of old foundations. The first service took place in 1819.

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