The dramatic Berlin Cathedral is now finally healed of its war wounds and celebrated its centenary in 2005. Built in Italian Renaissance style, it was destroyed during World...
Lustgarten 1Both this church and the Französischer Dom were built in 1780-85 by Carl von Gontard for Frederick the Great, in imitation of Santa Maria in Montesanto and Santa Maria dei...
GendarmenmarktBuilt in the early 18th century for Berlin's 6,000-plus-strong French Protestant community, the church was later given a baroque tower, which offers fine views over Mitte. The...
GendarmenmarktThis brick church, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, was completed in 1831. Its war wounds were repaired in the 1980s and it reopened in 1987 as a homage to its architect....
Werderscher MarktThe Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is one of Berlin's best-known sights, and one of its most dramatic at night. The neo-Romanesque structure was built in 1891-5 by Franz...
BreitscheidplatzBegun in 1270, this is one of Berlin's few remaining medieval buildings. Just inside the door is a wonderful Dance of Death fresco dating from 1485, and the 18th-century...
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 8Built in 1857-66 as the Berlin Jewish community's showpiece (and inaugurated in the presence of Bismarck), it was the New Synagogue that was attacked during Kristallnacht in...
Centrum JudaicumInside Berlin's oldest congregational church is an interesting historical collection chronicling Berlin's development until 1648. Old tiles, tapestries, stone and wood carvings...
NikolaikirchplatzConstructed in 1747 for Berlin's Catholic minority, this circular Knobelsdorff creation was bombed out during the war and only reconsecrated in 1963. Its modernised interior...
Hinter der katholischen Kirche 3