St. John's Church, church building in Schaprode, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

St. John's Church in Schaprode is a Brick Gothic and Brick Romanesque church on Rügen, built of red brick with a steep red tiled roof. Its rounded apse with a conical roof survives from the original 13th-century Romanesque structure, while the smaller Gothic nave has buttresses, a tall pointed-arch traceried window and a pointed-arch doorway. A square wooden bell tower with dark boards and a slender pointed spire rises from the west roof ridge, and lower side chapels with red roofs attach to the south and east.

Built in the early 13th century, it is the third-oldest church on Rügen and served as a refuge for Danish bishops in disputes with the royal house. Around 1450 the Romanesque nave was demolished and replaced by a smaller Gothic one, keeping the Romanesque choir and apse. At the end of the 15th century it became a Marian pilgrimage site, and the wooden roof turret over the west gable was added in 1666–1668.

The church is dedicated to John the Baptist and was a destination of a Marian pilgrimage at the end of the 15th century; the late Gothic triumphal cross group under the chancel arch dates from that period. On the pulpit stair, paintings from 1723 show the Christianisation of Rügen and the Reformation in Pomerania. The pulpit door bears a golden inscription beginning "Sag was zu sagen ist".

The church stands in the village of Schaprode on the west of Rügen, near the harbour and the crossing to Hiddensee. The entrance is through the pointed-arch doorway on the south side of the nave. Inside, the choir with its Romanesque apse lies to the east, the pulpit and patron's box on the north-east, the confessional on the south-east.

The two bells were cast in Stralsund: the smaller by Albert Huve in 1609, the larger by Jochim Metzker in 1728, bearing the Latin inscription LAUDO DEUM DEFUNCTOS PLORO SABBATA PANGO. Both were handed over to the armaments industry in 1942 but escaped melting down; in 1950 they were collected from Hamburg and hung again in Schaprode.