| New Church, colloquially "German Cathedral" | |
|---|---|
Neue Kirche; colloquially "Deutscher Dom" | |
 The New Church on Gendarmenmarkt, seen from north. | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Profaned since its reconstruction originally a Reformed (i.e. Calvinist) and Lutheran simultaneum, 1830s?–1943 united Protestant (Prussian Union) |
| District | March of Brandenburg ecclesiastical province, Kirchenkreis Berlin Stadt I (deanery) |
| Province | last: Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union |
| Location | |
| Location | Friedrichstadt, a locality of Berlin |
| Geographic coordinates | 52°30′46″N 13°23′33″E / 52.512756°N 13.392506°E |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | Martin Grünberg (design), Giovanni Simonetti (church construction 1701–8); Carl von Gontard (design); Georg Christian Unger (tower construction 1781–85); Johann Wilhelm Schwedler (design); Hermann von der Hude, Julius Hennicke (new prayer hall 1881–82); Otto Lessing (exterior sculptures 1885); Manfred Prasser, Roland Steiger and Uwe Karl (outside reconstruction 1977–81) |
| Completed | 9 April 1708, 1882 (new prayer hall), reconstruction 1988 |
The New Church (German: Neue Kirche; colloquially German: Deutscher Dom, meaning "German Cathedral"), is located in Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt across from French Church of Friedrichstadt (French Cathedral). Its parish comprised the northern part of the then new quarter of Friedrichstadt, which until then belonged to the parish of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church. The Lutheran and Calvinist (in German Reformed Church) congregants used German as their native language, as opposed to the French-speaking Calvinist congregation of the adjacent French Church of Friedrichstadt. The congregants' native language combined with the domed tower earned the church its colloquial name Deutscher Dom. While the church physically resembles a cathedral, it is not a cathedral in the formal sense of the word, as it was never the seat of a bishop.
After being heavily damaged during the bombing of Berlin in World War II, reconstruction was completed 1988; the church now serves as a museum.