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at the ground. Viewed from the western entrance, the girders give an impression to tapering towards the east. The pointed ogival arch of the girders grants the interior, despite its modernity, a sense of Gothic appeal, somewhat unusual for the rather sober
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Inside, the actual main floor consisting of nave, aisles, choir and altar is elevated, above the ground-level floor housing a fellowship hall. The entrance at the building's western end is flanked on both sides by the cladding of two round staircases. The semicircular flights of stairs lead to the
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inflicted severe damage on the church, and on 22 November 1943 it was gutted by fire. Following the war, reconstruction proceeded gradually until completed in 1965. From 1990-91, architect
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In 1927, this relatively affluent congregation, whose parish then comprised the locality of
Wilmersdorf, chose to build an additional church in the north of its district. The congregation tendered a competition and the architecture firms of
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church architecture in Berlin. The naming of the church after the city square it faces was originally considered a temporary solution until a more suitable one was chosen. The name stuck however, though the debate continues.
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from parishioners enabled the purchase of a new organ of 60 registers, built by E. Kemper & Sohn and installed after 1965, which required the removal of the second western loft gallery of seats.
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main inner portal, which announces the dominant forms of the interior. The church's west-facing elevation, as a whole, provides an eye-catching flank to the eastern edge of
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