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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

LUTHERAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH

CHIESA EVANGELICA LUTERANA 
1911/22 Franz Schwechten (1841/1924)
Completed after the break for the First World War
Official name CHRISTSKIRCHE
John Paul II (1978/2005) visited it in 1983, on the fifth centenary of the birth of Luther, the first pope to get on a pulpit since the Protestant Reformation
Extremely important archeological pieces were found during the construction of the church: the "Sallustian Obelisk" now on top of the Spanish Steps and the "Ludovisi Throne" now in Palazzo Altemps
Old baptismal font with "Relief" 1805/07 by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770/1844)
MOSAICS on arch and apse "Christ with the Law" by Ernst Pfannschmidt (1868/1941)