Berliner Dom/Berlin cathedral, Berlin, Germany

Feb 25, 2011 14:10




Berlin cathedral was built from 1893-1905, on a site where two other churches had been since 1536. The church has never been a cathedral in the literal sense of the word, since it has never been the site of a bishop.  The church, build in exuberant Neo-Renaissance style, was much larger than it's two predecessors and was considered a protestant counterpart of the St. Peter's basilica in Vatican city.



The beautiful and impressive dome of the cathedral. It's not the original dome however, as this was destroyed due to allied bombs in WWII. The reconstructed dome is a simplified version of the original design. You can see the original design here and the war damaged state of the cathedral here.



The pulpit



The organ, with it's 6954 pipes it was the largest organ of Germany when it was build in 1905.



The altar



Tombs of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and his wife Dorothea. There is a crypt with tombs of centuries of Hohenzollerns beneath the church. The Hohenzollerns were the royal family of Prussia and briefly of all of Germany (1870-1918)

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