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Chiesa evangelica luterana (Christuskirche)

Historic site · Ludovisi, Italy

The Lutheran church of Rome, built between 1910 and 1922 and opened in 1922, to the design of Franz Heinrich Schwechten, court architect to Wilhelm II and architect of Berlin's Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. Roma Capitale describes a gabled façade of squared stone on via Sicilia between two square bell towers, with three marble statues over the portico: Christ in the centre, St Peter to the left, St Paul to the right. Roma Capitale publishes the address as Via Sicilia 70 and says the façade gives onto via Sicilia; the building is on a corner and geocoders resolve it to via Toscana.

History

Roma Capitale records that during construction, at a depth of 2.40 metres, the paving of a Roman road four metres wide was found. It also records that a thirteen-metre Roman obelisk from the Villa of Sallust, the Horti Sallustiani, was found in this part of the city in the nineteenth century, and that it now stands in front of Trinità dei Monti.

Inside, per Roma Capitale: three naves with matronei, an apse mosaic of the Tree of Life with Christ Pantocrator in a mandorla, a font modelled on that of the Dómkirkjan in Reykjavík, and a Steinmeyer organ, opus 1515, built in 1930, with 35 stops, two 61-note manuals and a 30-note pedalboard. Roma Capitale records three papal visits, all dated: John Paul II on 11 December 1983, Benedict XVI on 14 March 2010 and Francis on 15 November 2015. The congregation's own site, ev-luth-gemeinde-rom.org, is live and bilingual in German and Italian.

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Via Sicilia 70, Roma RM

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