The Liebfrauen Church was built between 1892 and 1894 according to the plans of the architect August Hardegger (1858-1927), who designed the church in the style of an early Christian basilica based on models of Roman and Ravenna buildings. Hardegger had developed the idea in collaboration with the influential art historian and priest Albert Kuhn (1839-1929).
The Predigerkirche was a church founded, together with a convent, in Zurich by the Dominicans in the 13th century. With the Protestant Reformation, it was transformed into a Protestant place of worship. From 1606 to 1614, the nave was fitted with Baroque elements. In 1887, the monastery building was destroyed by fire and the Zentralbibliothek was built in its place in 1915. In 1900, the church was endowed with the highest tower in the city, measuring 97 metres, designed by G. Gull and clearly inspired by the collapsed Grossmünster Towers.
St. Peter in Zurich, built from the 13th century, is one of the three Old Town churches that characterize the silhouette of Zurich. It is located on a hill in the old town near the Lindenhof, where the Roman settlement of Turicum and the imperial Palatinate lay.
The synagogue on Löwenstrasse in Zürich was an Ashkenazi synagogue from 1883-84. The synagogue was restored in 1936, 1952 and finally in 1993 by the architects Michael Berlowitz and Ron Epstein-Mil. The brick synagogue mixes neo-Moorish and neo-Byzantine elements.
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