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The American Church in Berlin (ACB) is an ecumenical and international congregation that was established in the 19th Century. ACB's members come from more than seventeen Christian denominations and from more than thirty different nations. The congregation is loosely affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, from which the congregation receives clergy support. ==History== The origins of the church date back to about 1865, when American families met in private homes to worship. Otto March, father of the architects Walter and Werner March, planned and directed the construction of a church for the congregation between 1898 and 1903. This church building stood in the "American quarter" of Berlin-Schöneberg, on Motzstraße #6, near Nollendorfplatz.〔Susanne Twardawa, ''Der Nollendorfplatz in Berlin'', Berlin: Motzbuch, 2001, ISBN 3-935790-02-3, p. 10.〕 The Nollendorfplatz church was destroyed in an Allied bombing of Berlin in 1944. The congregation continued from 1945 by sharing facilities with various German churches in Berlin-Zehlendorf; for the most part in Zehlendorf's Alte Dorfkirche. On 8 November 2002 ACB moved into the Luther Church on Dennewitzplatz in Schöneberg, only few city blocks away from the original sanctuary that was destroyed in 1944. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「American Church in Berlin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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