St. Hedwig’s Cathedral

church, Berlin, Germany

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St. Hedwig's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Berlin, Germany. It was originally built in 1747 and was the first Catholic church constructed in Berlin after the Reformation. The cathedral has been rebuilt, with its most recent reconstruction completed after damage sustained during World War II.1

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…Committee Building; and the rebuilt St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, which dates from 1747 and which was the first Roman Catholic church to be built in Berlin after the Reformation. North of the Museum Island, in the Oranienburger Strasse, is Berlin’s main synagogue; it was officially reopened in 1991, 125 years after…
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…Committee Building; and the rebuilt St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, which dates from 1747 and which was the first Roman Catholic church to be built in Berlin after the Reformation. North of the Museum Island, in the Oranienburger Strasse, is Berlin’s main synagogue; it was officially reopened in 1991, 125 years after…
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