Bürgersaalkirche, Baroque chapel in Münchner Altstadt, Germany.
The Bürgersaalkirche is a Baroque church at Neuhauser Straße 14 in Munich's old town, built 1709–1710 to a design by Giovanni Antonio Viscardi. Its salmon-pink and pale stone facade, divided by double pilasters, mirrors the interior split into an upper church and a lower church, the Unterkirche, which holds a museum of the Marian Men Congregation. The upper hall has a rectangular plan and marble-effect pilaster pairs.
Architect Giovanni Antonio Viscardi designed the building in 1710 initially as a meeting space for a Marian congregation. It was consecrated as a proper church in 1778 and took on the role it holds today.
The Latin inscription across the facade, DIVAE MATRI VIRGINI / DEVOTI FILII DD. CC. MONAC. ANNO MDCCX, dedicates the building to the Virgin Mother by the devoted sons of Munich's councillors and citizens in 1710. The Marian Men Congregation "Annunciation", founded in 1610, still uses the church, and the lower church holds its museum.
The church sits on Neuhauser Street in the old town and is easily reached on foot with good public transit connections. Visitors should know that access may be limited at times due to religious services or ceremonies taking place.
The lower church holds the grave of Rupert Mayer, the Jesuit priest beatified in 1987, and a museum of the Marian Men Congregation that built the hall. The congregation's own history is displayed there, not a waxwork of Mayer.
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