The Evangelical Berliner Dom in Berlin was first established as St Erasmus Chapel under Frederick II Irontooth in 1451. Joachim II Hector acquired the Renaissance St. Paul's Church from a Dominican convent in 1535 to establish the Brick Gothic cathedral there. The kingdom subsequently fell into Calvinist hands and Martin Böhme designed a new front facade in 1717. The Supreme Parish Church was demolished to provide a Baroque extension for the Berlin Cathedral in 1747 designed by Johann Boumann. King Frederick William III had famed architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel refurbish the church in a Neoclassicist style. Julius and Otto Raschdorff designed a completely new Neo-Renaissance building in 1893. The damage from World War 2 was surprisingly light, considering the entire inner city was flattened by bombs, and reconstruction simplified much of the design. The northern wing was eliminated.
At a cost of 11,5 million Marks the building is a great example of an evolved building, torn down and rebuilt in a long series of iterations. The large plaza in front of the iconic building is a popular public space of Museum Island. The extravagance of the dome has unfortunately been scaled down from its stunning glory but the view is still quite impressive. The Fersehturm was built in full view behind the church as a kind of statement about Germany's modernity is a society that refuses to compromise some of its religious morals.
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