Vicelinkirche, Modern church in Sasel district, Hamburg, Germany

The Vicelinkirche is a modern church building in Sasel with a distinctive tent-shaped structure made of Dutch bricks. The form resembles a ship's hull, and large windows flood the interior with natural light.

Built in 1962 by architects Horst Sandtmann and Friedhelm Grundmann, this was the first church building specifically constructed for the Sasel neighborhood. The three bells are reproductions of the original bells from Arnsdorf's prayer house.

The name Vicelinkirche honours Vicelin, the 12th-century missionary bishop of Oldenburg in Holstein. Artist Lothar Quinte designed the coloured leaded-glass windows and the hand-woven tapestry of concentric colour circles behind the altar. Sculptor Hans Kock made the silver altar cross, the two tall altar candlesticks and the baptismal candlestick. Blue marks God's presence and red God's love.

The Vicelinkirche stands directly on Saseler Markt in the northern part of Sasel, next to the parish hall and an attached kindergarten. The entrance area faces the market square, and the dark brick exterior with its tent-like roof is visible from the surrounding streets.

The three bells hang in the tower in the tuning of the former prayer-house bells of Arnsdorf in Silesia. Pastor Konrad Feige, a refugee after the Second World War, found an intact 1863 bell from a neighbouring village on the Hamburg bell cemetery in 1951; the two missing bells were cast by Bachert in Karlsruhe to old models by 1962.