Friedenskirche
Saarbrücken, DE
The Friedenskirche was built between 1743 and 1751 at the request of Prince Wilhelm Heinrich for the newly admitted reformed community of Saarbrücken. The prince's mother, who died in 1738, had belonged to the Reformed Confession. After being secularised for almost a century, the Old Catholic Church acquired the building in 1892. Largely destroyed in an air raid during the Second World War, the church was rebuilt from 1961 to 1966 and the church was consecrated in 1967. Until 2014, the new church was used simultaneously by the Old Catholics and the Russian Orthodox community. On one narrow side of the great hall was the altar of the Old-Catholic community, on the opposite side the iconostasis of the Russian Orthodox community.