Pauluskirche, Church building in Grünau, Leipzig, Germany.

The Pauluskirche is a single-storey brick building with a rendered facade and a hipped roof, designed by Gerhart Pasch and Rainer Ilg as a four-wing complex around a central community room. Its open wooden roof truss spans the interior, and linked rooms seat 300 people. A free-standing campanile stands beside it, holding three cast-steel bells from the demolished church of Magdeborn.

The Pauluskirche was consecrated on 29 October 1983, after its foundation stone was laid on 17 October 1981. Its shell was financed with one million Deutsche Mark paid by the Evangelical Church in Germany, made possible by Bishop Albrecht Schönherr from 1978. It was the first Protestant church with a tower built in a GDR housing estate, following the special programme "Kirchen für neue Städte".

The congregation was founded on 1 April 1978 and grew with the Grünau housing estate. Its motto, "Offen sein für andere" (being open to others), is reflected in the two-fish symbol at the entrance of both the Pauluskirche and the neighbouring Catholic St.-Martin-Kirche, marking an ecumenical partnership from the start. Changing exhibitions are held in the church corridor.

The complex is a four-winged ensemble on Alte Salzstraße 185, with the church hall, parish rooms and the free-standing campanile grouped together; the entrance of both this church and the neighbouring St.-Martin-Kirche carries the two-fish sign of their shared ecumenical work. The corridor holds regularly changing exhibitions, so allow time for the interior as well as the exterior.

The free-standing campanile was not part of the state-approved plan; a partner congregation in West Germany financed it, and it was built in a "Nacht-und-Nebel-Aktion". Its three cast-steel bells, cast in 1950 by Schilling & Lattermann, come from the demolished church of Magdeborn, and a private donor from Switzerland gave the gilded cross.