Christ Resurrection Cathedral
The Christ Resurrection Cathedral is a church building of the Berlin diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district .
Building history
The church was built between 1936 and 1938 by the Prussian Building and Finance Directorate by Karl Schellberg at Hohenzollerndamm 166 on today's Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Platz as a replacement for a previous building at 33 Hohenzollerndamm at the corner of Ruhrstraße after the space was claimed by the NSDAP was.
architecture
The church has the shape of a three-aisled basilica in the Russian-Byzantine style with a roof dome, round lantern and a striking blue onion dome , as well as four small onion domes in the roof spandrels. It was inaugurated on May 13, 1938.
The iconostasis comes from the previous building, originally from an old garrison church in Mińsk Mazowiecki near Warsaw .
In 2011 the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate acquired the property for which it had leasehold until then .
literature
- New construction of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Berlin. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Vol. 60, No. 25/26 (June 22, 1940), pp. 371–374.
Web links
- Christ Resurrection Cathedral on the homepage of the Berlin Diocese
- Resurrection Cathedral on the homepage of the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Eva Börsch-Supan , Helmut Börsch-Supan , Günther Kühne, Hella Reelfs: Art Guide Berlin. Fourth, revised and expanded edition. Philiipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-15-010366-5 , p. 316, no. 25.
- ↑ a b Lexicon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from A to Z. Russian Orthodox Christ Resurrection Cathedral. In: District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. May 11, 2013, accessed June 5, 2017 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 17 " N , 13 ° 18 ′ 28.2" E