Kollegienkirche, Former university church in Jena, Germany

The Kollegienkirche in Jena was a Gothic mendicant church with a single north aisle and a three-bay polygonal choir. In 1557/58 it was converted into student housing with 36 rooms, and a Renaissance stair tower was added on the west side. From 1592 to 1595 the church space was restored for university services and as a burial place for professors.

The building began as a Dominican monastery church in 1286, founded by brothers Albert and Hermann von Lobdeburg. It was converted into the university church for the University of Jena in the 16th century.

The church held many grave plates and epitaphs, mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries, commemorating university professors. These monuments showed how closely the building was linked to the academic community of the city.

The building cannot be visited today as the church was demolished in 1947 and only its history remains at this location. Visitors can still walk past the site in central Jena and learn about the place's past from nearby information sources.

In 2015, an embroidered antependium from the Kollegienkirche returned to the University of Jena. After the war it had reached the USA and served a Lutheran congregation in Dearborn; it is now kept in the Stadtkirche St. Michael and used there at Pentecost.