Lukaskirche (Gütersloh)

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St. Luke
St. Lukas, B61 / corner of Diekstraße

St. Lukas, B61 / corner of Diekstraße

Data
place Gutersloh
architect Friedhelm Flöttmann
Architectural style brutalism
Construction year 1966-1968
Coordinates 51 ° 53 '48.8 "  N , 8 ° 21' 45.4"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 53 '48.8 "  N , 8 ° 21' 45.4"  E

The Lukaskirche is a church building of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch in the Kattenstroth district of the East Westphalian district town of Gütersloh .

The largest Aramaic community in Germany in terms of population lives in Gütersloh and the surrounding area . The St. Luke Congregation is, along with St. Stephen and St. Mary, one of three Aramaic communities in the city.

Altar of St. Luke's Church

The church was built by the Evangelical Church Community of Gütersloh, which named it after the evangelist Luke . The foundation stone was laid on December 3, 1966, and the dedication service took place on March 31, 1968. The Gütersloh architect Friedhelm Flöttmann designed a church building that combines the worship hall and community rooms under one roof. He grouped the community rooms around the sacred space so that the folding walls created variable usage options . Several special entrances enable the individual areas to be used independently at the same time. Flöttmann used exposed concrete as the dominant building material , which, in addition to high palisade walls , is intended to shield the church on the B61 ("Westring") from traffic noise. Another distinctive structural feature is the folded roof construction. The church has a free-standing bell tower . The entrance wall is adorned with the biblical quote embedded in the exposed concrete: "Heaven and earth will pass away / But my words will not pass away" ( Matthew 24:35, Luke 21:33).

In the summer of 1999, the Syrian Orthodox community took over the building. On December 5, 1999, Bishop Dionysios İsa Gürbüz visited St. Luke's Church on the occasion of a priestly ordination.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dispute over church expansion. In: New Westphalian . Local edition Gütersloh, February 3, 2006.
  2. ↑ Isa Acar celebrates the anniversary of ordination. In: New Westphalian. Local edition Gütersloh, December 8, 2009.