The Christuskirche is a Lutheran Evangelical church in Rome. It was designed by Franz Heinrich Schwechten, the architect who also designed the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin. The design is described as Romanesque Revival.
Groundbreaking took place in 1910, and the church was completed in 1922, so the building took twelve years from start to finish. Schwechten's Berlin church and this one therefore share a designer, though they stand in two different capitals.
The church has a place in papal history. On December 11, 1983, Pope John Paul II attended an ecumenical service here, the first papal visit to a Lutheran church. On January 14, 2015, a funeral Mass was held in the church for the actress Anita Ekberg.
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