The congregants' native language combined with the domed tower earned the church its colloquial name Deutscher Dom.

After being heavily damaged during the bombing of Berlin in World War II, reconstruction was completed 1988; the church now serves as a museum.

[1] The site for the church was disentangled from the so-called Swiss Cemetery, which had been provided for Huguenots, who had come to Berlin between 1698 and 1699 from their intermittent refuge in Switzerland.

The interior was characterised by a typical Protestant combined altar and pulpit leaning against the eastern central pillar opposite to the entrance.

In 1780, Carl von Gontard designed and started the construction of a tower, easterly adjacent to the actual prayer hall.

[citation needed] Christian Bernhard Rode created the statues, representing characters from the Old and New Covenant, which are added to the tower.

In 1881, the dilapidated prayer hall was torn down and Hermann von der Hude and Julius Hennicke replaced it with a new one on a pentagonal groundplan, according to the neobaroque design of Johann Wilhelm Schwedler.