St. Hedwig's Cathedral
Hinter der Katholischen Kirche 3, 10117 BerlinAbout
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Added by Jopie, at 13 July 2016
Opening Hours
- Monday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Tuesday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Wednesday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Thursday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Friday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 PM
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6 Reviews
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04 October 2017
Really nice roman catholic cathedral !
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16 April 2017
Beautiful place! I attended an Easter service here and I loved it! The building was packed! I'd also recommend visiting when there's not a service so you can explore the downstairs area.
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09 March 2017
St. Hedwig's Cathedral (German: Sankt-Hedwigs-Kathedrale) is a Roman Catholic cathedral on the Bebelplatz in Berlin, Germany. It is the seat of the archbishop. Wikipedia
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23 January 2017
The building was modelled on the Pantheon, but the sanctuary takes an “in the round form” which is in fact a modern post-war renovation which seems well adapted to the original building design. More stark, spare, beautiful, and effective 20th century modernism can be seen in the castings and plaques in the lower level chapels. It will seem reminiscent of Scandinavian modernist craft.
It needs to be understood that all of this work took place in the time of the DDR when the regime was trying to intimidate church flocks out of existence. I remember vividly that in St. Hedwig's on Sundays, men in ill-fitting leather jackets, the de-rigeur garb of the times’ government thugs and flunkies, with little understanding of the course of the mass, would sit in the last row and photograph people.
Knowing this, the people who attended mass defiantly exhibited no fear.
One Sunday in 1982, I remember that I got so annoyed by these men that I remained standing while the parishoners were seated, knowing that it would grate on the identity-gathering VoPo or Stasi men sitting right behind me.
Today, we can forget about all of that, and can report that one can exercise faith freely. Attending a youth mass there recently, hearing the beautiful music the kids were making, I thought about how wonderful it is that they never had to know what it was once like.
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20 July 2016
Attended the service at this beautiful cathedral. The chapels downstairs are interesting
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20 July 2016
Unique design for a Catholic church. Individual chapels downstairs are worth exploring
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