Berlin holds 6 Sacred buildings in the catalogue, spanning from Expressionist brick churches to Contemporary concrete chapels. The collection captures a city where religious architecture served as a testing ground for formal experimentation — architects used churches to push materials and spatial ideas beyond what civic commissions would allow.
The Expressionist pole is defined by the Kreuzkirche by Ernst Paulus and Günther Paulus and the Church at Hohenzollernplatz by Ossip Klarweins and Fritz Högers — both using angular brick to create theatrical, emotionally charged interiors. Werner Düttmann's St. Agnes church is the Brutalist counterpoint: a concrete box where all drama comes from light. Hermann Fehling's St. Norbert and the Paul Gerhardt church by Fehling, Daniel Gogel and Peter Pfankuch bring Modernist restraint to the sacred programme. The Contemporary St. Canisius by Heike Büttner, Claus Neumann and George Braun completes the arc — a church rebuilt after fire, where translucent glass walls dissolve the boundary between congregation and city.
