Zionskirche, Lutheran church in Südvorstadt district, Dresden, Germany

Zionskirche is a church building in Dresden's Sudvorstadt district, completed in 1982. The modern structure replaced the original building that once stood on Bayreuther Strasse and was destroyed during World War II.

The first Zionskirche was funded by the estate of machine manufacturer Johannes Hampel, who died in 1896 and left his fortune to Dresden on condition that a church be built in the Südvorstadt within five years. The foundation stone was laid in 1901 on Nürnberger Strasse, construction began in July 1908, and the church was consecrated on 29 September 1912. It burned out completely in the February 1945 air raids; the surviving steel bells were salvaged and given to the Auferstehungskirche. In 1978 the congregation traded the ruin to the city for a plot on Bayreuther Strasse, where the Swedish architect Rolf Bergk's wooden church was consecrated in 1982.

The congregation takes its name from the ruined 1912 Zionskirche, whose site it exchanged with the city for the Bayreuther Straße plot. Since 1956 it has shared its life with the Evangelische Studentengemeinde, which is based at the church, and it keeps a partnership with the Swedish parish of Kullavik, whose engineer Erik Granbom directed the 1981 construction.

The church stands at Bayreuther Straße 28, about 500 metres from the old Zionskirchruine, which the congregation exchanged with the city for this plot. The site slopes, so Stockholm architect Rolf Bergk had to revise the 1965 plans, which assumed level ground. The brick basement went up first in spring 1981, with the wooden church placed on top.

The steel bells of the 1912 church survived the February 1945 air raids; they were salvaged and handed to the Auferstehungskirche, whose bronze bells had been given up as a metal donation in the war. The burned-out shell of the old church, about 800 metres north-west of the university campus, became the lapidarium.