Church of the Life Giving Source (Wuppertal)
The Church of the Life- Giving Source ( Greek Ιερός Ναός Ζωοδόχου Πηγής , Ierós Naós Zoodóchou Pigís ) in the Uellendahl-Katernberg district is the church of the Greek Orthodox community in Wuppertal .
description
The north-facing building rises on a rectangular floor plan. Towards the street there is a crossbar, the facade of which is divided into three parts by a gabled central projection, behind which is the church hall. The building rests on a gray base and is almost entirely covered with red bricks, which structure the façades with numerous flat, sculptural elements. At the intersection of the ridge lines of the intersecting gable roofs, there was originally a roof turret that served as a bell tower.
The equipment includes a hand-carved wooden iconostasis, mostly made in Greece, with an icon of Our Lady painted on canvas , which is one of the largest in Europe at 15 m².
history
The building was built in 1896 according to plans by Christian Gerhard as a parish hall of the Reformed Elberfeld parish for the faithful in Uellendahl and contained a chapel for 350 people and a sexton apartment. After the Second World War, the community rooms soon became too small due to the rapidly growing buildings in the north of Uellendahl, and a new community center was built on Röttgen. The chapel was sold to the Greek Orthodox community in Wuppertal in 1967 and consecrated to the Mother of God on March 31, 1967 with the participation of some ecclesiastical and political celebrities .
The building has been a listed building since 1991 because of its "solid and good quality of architecture and decor" as an "example of the architecture of the time".
In February 2013 the Greek community received a relic of the monk priest Georgios Karslidis from Metropolitan Pavlos .
literature
- Klaus Goebel , Andreas Knorr (Ed.): Churches and places of worship in Elberfeld. Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-930250-35-7 .
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- Congregation website with information on church history
Individual evidence
- ^ A saint for Wuppertal Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from February 17, 2013
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 46.4 " N , 7 ° 9 ′ 53.7" E