On August 3, 1945, the Prague Regional National Committee seized the church from the German Evangelical Church and gave it to the Czech Brethren Evangelical Church, with the understanding that the Czechoslovak Hussite Church could also use it. The first Czech service was held on October 14, 1945. After disputes between the two Czech churches, the Czech Brethren began using a building on Prokop Veliky Street in the early 1950s, and the Hussite Church used the church. The church remained state p.. Read more »roperty, and on April 16, 1958, it was entrusted to the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, which used it occasionally until the mid-1970s. Due to poor maintenance, the four small towers on the corners of the main tower were demolished in the late 1950s. In 1974, the roof was repaired, and the church was intended for "cultural and educational" purposes, possibly as an exhibition or concert hall. In 1976, the Hussite Church formally returned the church to the Novy Bor Municipal National Committee, which used it for storage. The committee planned to reconstruct the church between 1982 and 1988. On February 20, 1982, around 3 p.m., three boys, around nine years old, entered the church through a broken window and started a fire. After pouring a can of paint onto the fire, it spread to stored materials around 4 p.m. The boys escaped, but the fire engulfed the church, destroying the roof, interior, organ, and stored materials. Only the outer walls remained.
