Franzosischer Dom
The French Church of Friedrichstadt is located in Berlin at the Gendarmenmarkt, across the Konzerthaus and the German Cathedral. The earliest parts of the church date back to 1701.
History
The French Church was modelled after the destroyed Huguenot temple in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France. The tower was built to embellish the Gendarmenmarkt ensemble at the instigation of Frederick the Great. The Deutscher Dom, however, on the other side of Gendarmenmarkt, consists of church building and tower as an entity. In 1817, the French Church community, like most Prussian Calvinist Reformed and Lutheran congregations joined the common umbrella organization «Evangelical Church in Prussia», with each congregation maintaining its former denomination or adopting the new united denomination.
The community of the maintained its Calvinist denomination. Today's community is part of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.
Copyright © All rights reserved | Ogham-Stone | Reset Consent
Copyright © All rights reserved | This template is made with by Colorlib