Erlöserkirche, Methodist church in Berlin-Mitte, Germany.
Erlöserkirche is a two-storey hall church built in 1905 as a rear courtyard building at Schröderstraße 5, hidden behind a five-storey residential block. Its red-brick facade, in North German Brick Gothic forms, has a steep gable with a stone cross, a circular traceried window, and two large pointed-arch windows divided by stone mullions into three sections, with arcading beneath.
The Erlöserkirche was built in 1905 for the Evangelical Methodist community, which had formed a Berlin district in 1888 and held services in rented rooms before the church was finished. Because the free church received no funds from the Prussian state church or public administration, a church building association collected donations for the construction. The church and the residential building designed by Carl Breuer are protected as architectural monuments.
The congregation belongs to the Evangelical Community (Evangelische Gemeinschaft), a Methodist denomination whose Berlin district was formed at the 1888 annual conference in Stuttgart. Its first branch in the city was the Bethesda Sisters' diaconal house, founded on 3 February 1887. Services were held in rented rooms until the church was finished.
The church stands in the rear courtyard of Schröderstraße 5, behind a five-storey residential block, so it cannot be seen from the street; enter through the passage of the front building. The U-shaped courtyard wing has flats on its first two floors, with the church above. The nave faces the Heinrich-Zille-Park playground on Bergstraße, where four large windows mark it.
The church is a Hinterhaus, a rear building on the courtyard at Schröderstraße 5, hidden behind a five-storey apartment block and invisible from the street. Its front building signals the church inside: oriel windows run over three upper floors on both sides of the passage, and a pointed spire rises from each side of the saddle roof.
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