On August 3, 1945, the Prague Regional National Committee seized the church from the German Evangelical Church and gave it to the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. The German Evangelical Church was formally dissolved retroactively to May 4, 1945, by a law of May 6, 1948, with its property transferring to the Czechoslovak state. The first Czech service was held on October 14, 1945. After disputes, the Czech Brethren began using a different building in the .. Read more »early 1950s, leaving the church to the Hussites. The state (represented by the Local National Committee in Nový Bor) formally transferred the church to the Hussites on April 16, 1958. Due to poor maintenance, the church's four small towers were demolished in the late 1950s. The roof was repaired in 1974, and the church was intended for "cultural and educational" purposes. The Hussites returned the church to the Nový Bor Municipal National Committee in 1976, which used it for storage. A reconstruction project was planned for 1982-1988. On February 20, 1982, three boys started a fire inside the church. The fire spread to stored materials and destroyed the church, leaving only the outer walls.
