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The
Sophienkirche
in
Dresden
, Germany, as presented in a
photochrom
from
c.
1895. Established in 1333 as a
Franciscan
monastery and chapel, the church stood empty for years after the
Protestant Reformation
. Restored in 1610 by
Sophie of Brandenburg
, the church received an organ made by
Gottfried Silbermann
in the 18th century, and the composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
performed several of his works there. The church, redesigned during the mid-19th century, was heavily damaged during the
bombing of Dresden
in 1945, and in 1962 the
East German
government ordered it destroyed.
Photochrom:
Detroit Publishing Company
; restoration:
Adam Cuerden
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