Church of the holy Archangels, Catholic church in Juist, Germany

The Church of the Holy Guardian Angels is a geosted brick hall church in simple Neo-Romanesque forms, completed in 1910. Two short transept arms adjoin the east end, the southern one carrying the small bell tower. In 1961 a western extension in the form of a half-rotunda with gallery was added, its diameter exceeding the width of the old church; a band of windows under the eaves, small round windows at mid-height and vertical concrete struts between brick panels shape its present appearance.

Catholics from the Rhineland and Westphalia began visiting Juist as tourists in the 1870s; from about 1895 guest priests celebrated Mass in a room of the Hotel Rose. A Catholic beach club founded in 1901 raised the funds, the first sod was cut in autumn 1909, and the first Mass was celebrated on 26 June 1910. The church was extended in 1960/61 with a western apse.

The church is dedicated to the guardian angels, a patronage chosen because of the island's many children's holiday homes. Its furnishings were donated over decades: a 1764 Baroque bell from Cologne founder Johann Fuchs, a 1922 fresco of Liudger preaching on Bant, and a 1974 bronze altar showing a storm at sea.

The church stands on Juist, the long East Frisian island reachable only by ferry or plane; there is no car traffic on the island. The entrance is on the south side, where the 1961 west apse and the 1994 stair tower connect to the parish hall built in 2000/2001. The interior was renovated in 2010 and 2015/16.

The planned west tower was never built, so the small south transept arm serves as the bell tower. Its two bells hang one above the other in a wooden frame that fills the belfry: a Baroque bell cast in Cologne in 1764 by Johann Fuchs, donated by the Otto foundry in 1911, and a larger one from Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher inscribed "SIEHE, MEIN ENGEL SOLL VOR DIR HER GEHEN".