Berlin Cathedral

Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church
Oberpfarr- und Domkirche zu Berlin
Berlin Cathedral seen from Lustgarten
Basic information
Location	Cölln, a historical neighbourhood of Berlin, Germany
Geographic coordinates	52°31′9″N 13°24′4″E / 52.51917°N 13.40111°E / 52.51917; 13.40111Coordinates: 52°31′9″N 13°24′4″E / 52.51917°N 13.40111°E / 52.51917; 13.40111
Affiliation	United (Prussian Union) (1817-present) Lutheran & Reformed (1613-1817) Lutheran (1539-1613) Roman Catholic (until 1539)
Province	Union of Evangelical Churches
Year consecrated	1454, as the Roman Catholic St. Erasmus Chapel
Website	www.berliner-dom.de
Architectural description
Architect(s)	Martin Böhme (1717) Johann Boumann the Elder (1747–1750) Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1817 and 1820–1822) Julius and Otto Raschdorff, father and son (1894–1905)
Architectural style	Renaissance (until 1538) Brick Gothic (1538–1747) Baroque (1747-1817/1822) Neoclassical (1817–1893) Neo-Renaissance, since 1905
Completed	1451 (first building) ca. 1345 (2nd bldg) 1750 (3rd bldg) 1905 (4th bldg) 1993 reinaugurated after removal of war destructions
Construction cost	11.5 million marks (1905)
Specifications
Direction of façade	west
Length	114 metres (374 ft), shorter since the demolition of the northern memorial hall in 1975
Width	74 metres (243 ft)
Dome height (outer)	115 metres (377 ft) (until destruction 1944)
Materials	originally brick, since 1905, Silesian sandstone

Berlin Cathedral (German: Berliner Dom) is the short name for the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church (German: Oberpfarr- und Domkirche zu Berlin) in Berlin, Germany. It is located on Museum Island in the Mitte borough. The current building was finished in 1905 and is a main work of Historicist architecture of the "Kaiserzeit".

The Dom is the parish church of the congregation Gemeinde der Oberpfarr- und Domkirche zu Berlin, a member of the umbrella organisation Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The Berlin Cathedral has never been a cathedral in the actual sense of that term since it has never been the seat of a bishop. The bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (under this name 1945–2003) is based at St. Mary's Church and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin.

The history of today's Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church and its community dates back to 1451. In that year Prince-Elector Frederick II Irontooth of Brandenburg moved with his residence from Brandenburg upon Havel to Cölln (today's Fishers' Island, the southern part of Museums Island) into the newly erected City Palace, which also housed a Catholic chapel. In 1454 Frederick Irontooth, after having returned – via Rome – from his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, elevated the chapel to become a parish church, richly endowing it with relics and altars.Pope Nicholas V ordered Stephan Bodecker, then Prince-Bishop of Brandenburg, to consecrate the chapel to Erasmus of Formiae.