Zionskirche, Dresden

The Zionskirche is the name given to two Evangelical Lutheran church buildings in the Südvorstadt district of Dresden.

A temporary roof was later added and it is now preserved as a ruin, housing a lapidarium with 3000 sculptures.

The parish, meanwhile, was housed in a barracks next to the ruins until the first stone of a new building, the Neue Zionskirche, was laid on Bayreuther Straße on 5 June 1981, as a gift from the Church of Sweden.

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Ruins of the first church.
The Neue Zionskirche
Detail of the Alten Zionskirche: "Praise Thy God, O Zion" ( Psalm 147 .12)