St. Clara Church, Parish church in Neukölln, Germany.
St. Clara Church is a brick hall church with red clinker facing, built 1895–1897 to plans by August Menken and blessed on 24 June 1897. Its corner tower marks the junction of the two street facades; an octagonal spire with a cross and weathercock rises from it, ringed by four small turrets. The two-aisled symmetrical nave seats about 300 of the roughly 1,200 people it holds, under a ribbed vault carried by four slender columns.
Catholics in Rixdorf had to travel to Berlin's Hedwigskirche until a room chapel was set up in the 1840s. A chapel on Briesestraße was consecrated on 18 September 1881; the church, designed by August Menken, was begun on 10 March 1895 and blessed on 24 June 1897. It became an independent parish on 13 January 1894 and was consecrated only on 22 April 1930 by Bishop Christian Schreiber.
The church is also consecrated as a Rosary church, marked by a mosaic of Our Lady of the Rosary between the two portals. Mass was said only once a month by a priest from St. Michael until St. Clara became an independent parish on 13 January 1894. The parish merged with St. Eduard on 1 May 2004.
The church is located on Briesestrasse in the Neukölln district and welcomes visitors during its open hours. The interior is straightforward to navigate, and you can find quieter moments when services are not taking place.
The tower stands on the corner of the plot and forms part of the gable wall, so the main gable is not built to its full width because it cuts into the tower. Above the twin segmental-arched bell openings rises an octagonal spire ringed at its base by four small turrets; a cross with a weathercock extends seven metres above the tip.
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