Delphi, Movie theater and architectural heritage monument in Weißensee, Pankow, Germany

Delphi is a former large cinema at Gustav-Adolf-Straße 2 in Weißensee, built in 1929 to plans by Julius Krost and Heinrich Zindel as a ground-level auditorium with foyer and one balcony tier. The pale flat facade has two vertical recessed panels with yellow inserts; a low-slope roofline ends in a stepped parapet block on the right. The hall held 900 seats, with rust-coloured walls, a stage eight metres wide and an orchestra pit for 13 musicians.

The Delphi opened on 26 November 1929 with the film Hochverrat, in a building designed by Julius Krost and Heinrich Zindel with 900 seats, a stage eight metres wide and an orchestra pit for 13 musicians. Lightly damaged in the Second World War, it reopened in July 1945 but was only provisionally repaired; on 12 February 1959 falling stucco closed it to the public. After decades of interim use as a vegetable store, laundry depot, stamp shop and civil-defence warehouse, it reopened as a cultural venue on 2 December 2017 following restoration costing around 1.4 million euros.

The name refers to the Greek site of Delphi and its oracle. Since reopening in December 2017 the house has staged opera excerpts, classical concerts, theatre and dance, with the Shakespeare Company planning a winter fairy tale; the Berlin Senate supports it with 50,000 euros a year. In Babylon Berlin the interior stood in for the Moka Efti on Friedrichstraße.

The Delphi is a single ground-floor auditorium with a foyer and one balcony tier, entered from Gustav-Adolf-Straße 2. Seating was arranged tightly to fit 900 visitors, and the stage is eight metres wide. The building reopened in December 2017 as a cultural venue; check current programme times before visiting.

The Delphi's interior stood in for the legendary Moka Efti bar in the TV series Babylon Berlin, as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung noted in October 2018. The building also kept its name from 1929, taken from the Greek site of Delphi or its oracle, and the street numbering shifted between No. 2 and No. 3.