Kapelle Der Versöhnung
The Chapel of Reconciliation () is a place of worship in Berlin, Germany. It stands on the site of the old Church of Reconciliation (:de:Versöhnungskirche (Berlin), de) (), on Bernauer Strasse in the Mitte district. Church of Reconciliation The church was completed in 1894 as an imposing brick-built building by the architect Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel, in the Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic revival style. It sustained some damage in the World War II, Second World War, and still had a deactivated American bomb in the basement discovered during its reconstruction in 1999, but the church survived the war. With the Division of Berlin in 1945, the church building found itself within the East Berlin, Soviet sector, with most of the parishioners in the neighbouring West Berlin, French sector. This meant that when the Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961, it ran directly in front of the church on its western side and behind it on the eastern side, preventing access to everyone except ...
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