Sophienkirche
Sophienkirche is the name of numerous well-known church buildings. In the Byzantine Empire , based on the famous cathedral in Constantinople, Hagia Sophia (Ἅγια Σοφία, Holy Wisdom) was the name of the main church in many cities. Orthodox Sophia churches are not named after a holy person , but after the abstract wisdom as a feminine side of God .
Sophienkirchen
Orthodox
- Hagia Sophia , 6th century, the former cathedral of Constantinople (Istanbul), the largest church in the world for many centuries and the main church of Orthodox Christianity
- Sophia Church (Sofia) (Света София), Sofia, built in the 4th century, site of the Council of Serdica
- The Sergios and Bakchos Church (6th century), not far from the original Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, is nicknamed Little Hagia Sophia because of its architecture and construction time .
- St. Sophia Cathedral (Almaty) , Kazakhstan, consecrated in 2007
- St. Sophia Cathedral (Harbin) , China, built in 1907, now an architecture museum
- St. Sophia Cathedral (Kiev) , the most famous church in Ukraine, originally built in the 11th century
- St. Sophia Cathedral (London) , Greek Orthodox cathedral of the British capital, 1882
- St. Sophia Cathedral (Los Angeles) , Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 1954
- Sweta Sofia (Nessebar) , built in 4th / 5th centuries century
- Hagia Sophia (Nicaea) ; the 4th century cathedral of today's İznik was the site of the seventh ecumenical council and patriarchal cathedral during the occupation of Constantinople by the Crusaders (1204–1261)
- Hagia Sophia (Nicosia) ; the former cathedral of the Cypriot capital is located in the Turkish-occupied northern part and today serves as a mosque ( Selimiye Camii )
- St. Sophia Cathedral (Novgorod) , Russia, 11th century
- Sophia Church (Ohrid) , 9th century, built under Knjaz Boris of Bulgaria (today in Macedonia)
- St. Sophia Cathedral ( Polatsk ) , Belarus (11th / 18th century)
- Sweta Sofia (Sliven) , Bulgaria
- Hagia Sophia (Trebizond) , 13th century
- Hagia Sophia (Thessaloniki) , 8th century
- St. Sophia Cathedral (Tobolsk) Russia (Siberia), 17th century
- St. Sophia Cathedral (Vologda) , built under Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century
- St. Sophia Cathedral (Washington) , Greek Orthodox cathedral of the US capital, 1904
Other denominations
Germany
- Ordenskirche St. Georgen in Bayreuth, also called Sophienkirche, built between 1705 and 1711
- Sophienkirche (Berlin) , Protestant church (18th century), named after Sophie Luise von Mecklenburg-Schwerin , who married Queen of Prussia.
- City church Brüssow , today Protestant church (13th century)
- Sophienkirche (Dresden) (13th century), Franciscan, later Protestant church, named after Sophie von Brandenburg , demolished by marriage to Electress of Saxony, 1962
- St. Sophia (Dretzel) , Protestant church in Saxony-Anhalt (today's form from the 18th century)
- St. Sophia (Erbach) , named after St. Sophia of Rome
- Sophienkirche (Erlangen) (built in 1701, profaned in 1739, finally demolished in the 1960s), Protestant church
- Sophia Church (Frankfurt am Main) (Christian Community)
- St. Sophien (Hamburg-Barmbek) , Roman Catholic Church, built in 1900 based on plans by Heinrich Beumer. Next to it the Dominican monastery of St. Johannis, built 1964–66.
- Sophienkirche (Munich) in the ecumenical church center with the Catholic St. Florian's Church in the Messestadt Riem
- St. Sophie (Randau) , named after St. Sophia of Rome
- New Reformed Church (Wuppertal) , but in Wuppertal only as Sophia is called, as in the Sophienstraße located
Italy
- Santa Sofia in Anacapri on the island of Capri
- Santa Sofia in Benevento ( Campania )
- Santa Sofia in Giugliano near Naples (Campania)
- Santa Sofia in Lendinara ( Rovigo , Veneto )
- Santa Sofia in Padua (Veneto)
- Santa Sofia a Via Boccea , national church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Rome
- Santa Sofia in Venice (Veneto)
Further
- St Sophia's Church (Galston) , Roman Catholic brick church in Scotland, built in 1886 according to plans by Robert Weir Schultz
- Sophiakirche (Jönköping) , Lutheran church in Sweden, built in 1888 in neo-Gothic style
- Sophia Church (Stockholm) , Lutheran church in Sweden, designed in the style of the Rhenish transition Romanesque and built from 1902 to 1906, after the wife of Swedish King Oscar II. Named