On August 3, 1945, the Prague Regional National Committee seized the church from the German Evangelical Church and gave it to the Czechoslovak 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, the Brethren began using a different prayer house in the early 1950s, leaving the church to the Hussites. The state retained ownership, but on April 16, 1958, it was entrusted t.. Read more »o the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, which used it occasionally until the mid-1970s. Due to neglect, the church's four small towers were demolished in the late 1950s. The roof was repaired in 1974, and the building was slated for cultural and educational purposes. The Hussite Church formally returned control to the Nový Bor Municipal National Committee in 1976, which used it as storage. A reconstruction project was planned for 1982-1988. On February 20, 1982, three boys, around nine years old, entered the church through a broken window and started a fire. After adding a can of paint to the fire, it spread to stored materials. The boys escaped, but the fire consumed the church, destroying the roof, interior, organ, and stored items, leaving only the outer walls.
