St. Ignatius, Concrete church in Westend district, Frankfurt, Germany

St. Ignatius is a fully concrete church on Gärtnerweg in Frankfurt's Westend, built to Gottfried Böhm's design and consecrated in 1964. Its slender octagonal tower rises beside a pale concrete body whose steep, dark grey roof folds into three gables of different proportions, topped by a small cross. The church room sits on the first floor, carried by concrete columns shaped like the tower, and a large triangular window above the altar shows the Burning Bush.

The church was built from 1963 to 1964 by architect Gottfried Böhm and replaced an earlier building damaged during World War II. This new construction marked a turning point in postwar architecture and reshaped the visual character of the neighborhood.

The parish has been run by Jesuits since its founding in 1930, and the parish priest is still a Jesuit today. The baroque Madonna with the Child in the tower stairway, probably carved in Piedmont in the early 17th century, shows the infant stepping on the head of a snake-like monster. In the right side chapel, five panels by the American artist Robert Burke, titled The Last Supper, reproduce Leonardo da Vinci's painting; the community acquired them in March 2000 for its seventieth anniversary.

The church stands on Gärtnerweg in the Westend, between Leerbachstraße and Reuterweg and near the Rothschildpark; the Frankfurter Welle complex faces it. The church room is on the first floor, reached from the entrance below, where the baptismal chapel sits. The Ignatiushaus on Elsheimerstraße, behind the church, holds the parish offices.

The tower held no bell for about four decades. The parish then acquired a d'' bell cast in 1978 as St. Raphael for St. Marien in Neu-Anspach, and since 2005 it rings daily at five before twelve as the Armutsglocke, a reminder of the poor next to the banking district. Donations reached twice its price, and the surplus went to anti-poverty projects.