Jerusalem Church (Berlin)
Protestant church in Friedrichstadt, Berlin, Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jerusalem Church (German: Jerusalem(s)kirche, Jerusalemer Kirche) is one of the churches of the Evangelical Congregation in the Friedrichstadt (under this name since 2001), a member of the Protestant umbrella organisation Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The present church building is located in Berlin, borough Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, in the quarter of Friedrichstadt. Jerusalem Church is fourth in rank of the oldest oratories in the town proper (except of suburbs incorporated in 1920, which are partly older).
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Jerusalem Church Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel (1944/45) Jerusalemskirche (de) Kirche zu den Erzengeln Michael und Gabriel (1944/45) | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | United Protestant since its reconstruction in 1968, originally Roman Catholic, from 1539 on Lutheran, deserted in the Thirty Years War, Calvinist (1658–1662), a Calvinist and Lutheran simultaneum (1682–1830), Evangelical Protestant (1830–1941), Romanian Orthodox (1944–1945), then destroyed. |
District | Sprengel Berlin, Kirchenkreis Berlin Stadtmitte |
Province | Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia |
Location | |
Location | Kreuzberg, a locality of Berlin |
Geographic coordinates | 52°30′14″N 13°23′43″E |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Giovanni Simonetti (1693–1695), Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1831), Edmund Knoblauch (1878/1879), Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach (1967–1968) |
Completed | 14th century, repaired 1484, new construction 1695, refurbish 1831, total rebuild 1878/1879, destroyed 1945, new construction 1968 |
Materials | originally brick, now concrete partly clad with brick |
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