Berlin Cathedral
Berlin Cathedral—Berliner Dom, officially the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church—is both a Protestant place of worship and a dynastic tomb of the House of Hohenzollern. Its site on Lustgarten has church origins in the 15th century, when the area served as part of the Berlin Palace’s castle-chapel complex, and later structures continued the tradition. The building you see now is a grand Renaissance and Baroque Revival work commissioned by Emperor William II and planned by Julius Carl Raschdorff. Construction spans 1894 to 1905, and the result is the largest Protestant church in Germany, reflecting how closely faith, state ceremony, and monarchy once intertwined. The cathedral survived major rupture: it was damaged during Allied bombing in World War II, and its original interior was restored by 2002. …
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