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St. Mary's Church, Berlin

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313: 33: 109: 448: 355:, and was in regular use as a parish church. After the war, this area was cleared of ruined buildings and today the church stands in the open spaces around the Alexanderplatz, and is overshadowed by the East Berlin television tower, the 262:
in 1243. As a result of these charges, a number of Jews were burnt at the stake at a place later called Judenberg. It is also mentioned in German chronicles in 1292. It is presumed to date from earlier in the 13th century.
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The architecture of the building is now largely composed of comparatively modern restoration work which took place in the late 19th century and in the post-war period. The church was originally a
490: 258:. The exact age of the original church site and structure is not precisely known, but it was mentioned as the site of the alleged theft by Jews of the wafers in an act of 386:. Carl Hildebrand Freiherr von Canstein, the founder of the oldest Bible society of the world, the Cansteinsche Bibelanstalt, was also buried in the church in 1719. 285:
from 1817 to 1948, an umbrella church body combining parishes maintaining mostly the Lutheran, but also some the Calvinist and few the United Protestant confession.
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Artus Quellinus' Grabmal Sparr. Der Einfluß der Niederlande auf das Grabmal in Norddeutschland zwischen 1650 und 1725.
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Before World War II, the Marienkirche was in the middle of a densely populated part of the district of
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outside the church. The Marienkirche also contains the monumental tomb of
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in 1539. While keeping this confession the parish was part of the
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was notably the church's organist/choirmaster from 1976 to 1992.
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being under joint supervision of all the member churches of the
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Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia
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Encyclopaedia Judaica, Jerusalem, 1971, Vol 8, pg 1042-43.
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52°31′14″N 13°24′24″E / 52.52056°N 13.40667°E / 52.52056; 13.40667
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