Holy Trinity Church, Berlin
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Trinity Church (Dreifaltigkeitskirche) was a Baroque Protestant church in Berlin, eastern Germany, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. It was opened in August 1739 and destroyed in November 1943, with its rubble removed in 1947.
Trinity Church | |
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Dreifaltigkeitskirche (de) | |
Religion | |
Affiliation | United Protestant since the 1820s, originally Reformed (Calvinist). |
Province | last: Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union |
Location | |
Location | Friedrichstadt quarter within Mitte borough of Berlin |
Geographic coordinates | 52°30′42″N 13°23′11″E |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Titus de Favre (1737–1739), Christian August Naumann (1737–1739) |
Type | round church |
Style | Baroque |
Completed | 1739 |
Specifications | |
Direction of façade | North |
Dome height (outer) | 57 m |
Dome dia. (inner) | 22 m |
It was located in the Friedrichstadt district (now part of the Mitte borough), at the intersection of Mauerstraße, Kanonierstraße (now known as Glinkastraße) and Mohrenstraße at the postcode 10117 Berlin. Three domestic houses used as a vicarages were built on Glinkastraße/Taubenstraße and the two which survived World War II are still part of the parish today (Glinkastraße 16 and Taubenstraße 3.). A similar church, the 1737 Böhmische Bethlehems-Kirche was also nearby (Bethlehemskirchplatz).