St. Paul's Church (

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: ''Sankt Pauls Kirke'') is a

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church in central

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, also colloquially known as Nyboder's Church due to its location in the middle of the

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area. It was designed by Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann and constructed from 1872 to 1877.

History

The church is part of a wave of church constructions which took place in Copenhagen in the 1870s to provide capacity for the city's growing population. Unlike the other new churches – St. Stephen's and St. James' in

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and St. Mathew's in Vesterbro – St. Paul's was not built in one of the emerging districts outside the city's old fortifications which had just been decommissioned. Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann was charged with the design of the new church, his first independent work as an architect, and it opened on 15 February 1877.

Architecture

The church is built in red brick and the masonry is decorated with blinds, arches, columns and pinnacles on all corners.

Interior

The church's first altarpiece was a painting by

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entitled ''The Eucharist'' (Danish: ''Nadveren''). In 1887 it was replaced by a gilded crucifix created by the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau, a donation from pastor Christian Møller.

Organs

The church has two organs. The main organ has 42 voices and 3126 pipes, three manuals and pedal. Originally built by the organ builder Daniel Köhne in 1878 with 20 voices, and rebuilt and enlarged by I. Starup & Søn in 1926 and 1938 respectively. The choir organ is built by the Dutch organ builder Henk Klop in 2000.

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is organist since 2017.

St. Paul's Square

The space surrounding the church is called Sankt Pauls Plads (St. Paul's Square). On the southeast side of the church (even numbers) are some of the so'called Grey Tows of the Nyboder development. They were designed by Olaf Schmidth and are younger than the more well-known terraces of the neighbourhood. On the other side of the church street (even numbers) are a row of apartment buildings from the 1870s. To the rear of the church is the former Gernersgade Barracks, now '' Bygningskulturens Hus''. Two of Nyboder's Yellow Rows flank Adelgade in front of the church.

References

External links

Official website
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