Brunswick Cathedral
Church in Lower Saxony, Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brunswick Cathedral (German: Dom St. Blasii (et Johannis), lit. in English: Collegiate Church of Ss. Blaise and John the Baptist) is a large Lutheran church in the City of Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany.
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Brunswick Cathedral | |
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Collegiate Church of Saint Blaise and Saint John the Baptist | |
Location | Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany |
Denomination | Lutheran |
Previous denomination | Roman Catholic |
History | |
Dedication | Saint Blaise, John the Baptist and Thomas Becket |
Consecrated | 29 December 1226 |
Architecture | |
Style | Romanesque |
Years built | 1173–1195 |
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The church is termed Dom, in German a synecdoche - pars pro toto - used for cathedrals and collegiate churches alike, and much like the Italian duomo. It is currently owned and used by a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Brunswick.