Flussschifferkirche Hamburg, Floating church in Speicherstadt, Germany

The Flussschifferkirche is a floating church anchored in Hamburg's Inland Port near Speicherstadt. The converted cargo vessel serves as a working place of worship where visitors can walk aboard and experience religious services on the water.

The hull is a Weserleichter lighter built in 1906, 26 metres long and seven metres wide. It was converted into a church in 1952 and consecrated on the second Sunday of Advent that year. Until 2006 it lay in the Billwerder Bucht at the Ausschläger Elbdeich in Rothenburgsort, after earlier moorings in the Marktkanal and Müggenburger Zollhafen on the Veddel; since then it has been in the Binnenhafen near the Speicherstadt.

The church's symbol is the anchor cross, an anchor combined with the Christian cross, which also appears on the purple flag flown on deck. The altar picture was painted by Nanette Lehmann. Services are held for up to 130 visitors, and weddings and baptisms take place on board.

The church lies in the Binnenhafen by the Otto-Sill-Brücke and Kajen, reached over the steel-and-wood Kehrwiedersteg footbridge from Deichstraße at the corner of Kajen; Baumwall U-Bahn station is nearby. Boarding means crossing onto a pontoon and the converted barge, so expect a gangway and a deck that moves with the water.

The church keeps a separate launch, the Johann Hinrich Wichern, named after the founder of pastoral care for inland boatmen in Hamburg. Volunteers and deacons use it to reach about 20 barges per tour in the port, bringing apples, chocolate and a newspaper as welcome gifts, and talking with crews when needed.