Christ the King, Building in Germany

Christ the King is a two-storey church on Sebastian-Rinz-Straße in Frankfurt's Westend-Nord, built by architect Johannes Schmidt and consecrated in 1958. The building widens from west to east toward a semi-circular choir with a stage-like altar area; the main entrance and baptistry are at the west end. The upper church seats about 250 people and is lit by a row of round windows along the nave, with stained glass added in 1967.

An English-speaking Episcopal congregation formed during the US occupation of Frankfurt; a Nissen hut donated by the British was consecrated on Good Friday 1949. The Anglican and Old Catholic communities then built a shared church: the Old Catholics provided the land, the Anglicans most of the building costs, helped by a donation from the women's association of the US Episcopal Church. The foundation stone was laid on 7 July 1956 and the church consecrated on 24 August 1958. Named St. Willibrord and St. Christopher at first, it took the shared name Christ the King/Christ König in the 1970s; since 1 January 1986 the Anglican congregation has used it alone.

The building carried two names until the 1970s: St. Willibrord, used by the Old Catholic congregation that supplied the land, and St. Christopher, used by the Anglicans who paid for construction and furnishings. The two communities then agreed on Christ the King/Christ König. Since 1 January 1986 the Anglican congregation has used the church alone, after the Old Catholics chose a separate building in 1985.

Christ the King stands at Sebastian-Rinz-Straße 22 in Westend-Nord, near where that street meets Miquelallee; the grounds border the northern part of Grüneburgpark. The main entrance is on the west side, where the baptistry is also located. The church room is on the upper floor above the parish rooms, reached from that west entrance.

A tower planned to stand free beside the church was never built. The round choir-window glazing replaced a historicist window from the English Church of Bad Ems, destroyed in the Second World War; a 1989 modern window there was damaged by a detonating firework in 1993 and removed in 2011.