Chapel of Reconciliation
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The Chapel of Reconciliation is a place of worship in Berlin, Germany. It stands on the site of the old Church of Reconciliation, on Bernauer Strasse in the Mitte district.
The present-day Chapel of Reconciliation
The Church of Reconciliation, pictured in 1899
The church, and the border zone: aerial view, 1970
The church as it appeared in 1978
Berlin Wall
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Construction of the Berlin Wall was comm
Chapel of Reconciliation
…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 Soviet sector, with most of the parishioners in the neighbouring French sector. This meant that…
From the West Berlin side, Berlin Wall graffiti art in 1986. The wall's "death strip", on the east side of the Wall, here follows the curve of the Luisenstadt Canal (filled in 1932).
East German Combat Groups of the Working Class close the border on 13 August 1961 in preparation for the Berlin Wall construction
East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961
US President John F. Kennedy visiting the Berlin Wall on 26 June 1963