The universal convention of Hungarian Lutherans decided in 1802 to establish the archives of the Lutheran Church in Pest, the Archivum Generalis Ecclesiae. For one hundred years it was located in a school building of the Lutheran congregation on Deák square in the city of Pest. In 1908, it moved to the Church centre at Üllői Road 24, district VIII of Budapest. (Now the building is under reconstruction, and the archive is provisionally being held in the building of the City Archives of Budapest.) The material of the archive has been expanded by national collections, and in addition to the documents of church administration, many congregations and individuals have donated their documents to the archive. Because of the reorganization of church administration, the materials of the episcopal offices of the four Lutheran districts were delivered to the archive. The documents of dioceses, of the nationalized evangelistic higher and secondary schools (the secondary school of Fasor, the Faculty of Theology in Sopron, and the Academy of Law in Miskolc) and the materials of dissolved church congregations were also collected. The bequests of many important ecclesiastical figures were acquired by the archives. Now, the archives preserve about 1,000 meters of material. Special catalogues were made for materials concerning the history of congregations and the biographical data of priests.