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Gethsemane Church () is one of four church buildings of the Lutheran Northern Prenzlau Berg Evangelical Congregation (), within the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia, an umbrella organisation which includes Lutheran, Reformed, and United Protestant Calvinist congregations. Gethsemane Church is the best known church in the locality of Prenzlauer Berg, in Berlin's borough of Pankow. The church was named after the Garden of Gethsemane (Old Aramaic גת שמנא, transliterated ''Gath Šmānê'', (ヘブライ語:גת שמנים), translit. ''Gath Šmānîm'', lit. "oil press", transliteration in (ギリシア語:ΓεΘσημανι) ''Gethsēmani'') at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Christians revere the place as it was where the Twelve Apostles and Jesus of Nazareth prayed on the eve of his crucifixion. The church and its congregation played a crucial role before and during the ''Wende'' (or peaceful revolution) in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the autumn of 1989. The church was built between 1891 and 1893 erected following the plans of August Orth, the city's ''Baurat''.〔"Building Councillor", an honorary title granted to prominent architects before 1918.〕〔Günther Kühne and Elisabeth Stephani, ''Evangelische Kirchen in Berlin'' (11978), Berlin: CZV-Verlag, 21986, p. 388. ISBN 3-7674-0158-4.〕 ==Parish== Due to the high number of new parishioners moving into its area the end of the 19th century, the city's Zion's Church grew too small. Its congregation commissioned August Orth to build a new church for a new parish which was to be carved out of its own. On February 26, 1893, the new Gethsemane Church was inaugurated, and on March 15 of the same year the Gethsemane Church Congregation () was constituted, with its parish comprising the formerly northern part of the Zion's Church parish.〔Günther Kühne and Elisabeth Stephani, ''Evangelische Kirchen in Berlin'' (11978), Berlin: CZV-Verlag, 21986, p. 388. ISBN 3-7674-0158-4.〕 In 1907, the parish of the Gethsemane Church Congregation was itself sub-divided to form the Paul Gerhardt Congregation, comprising the northerly part of the parish, and the Elijah Church Congregation, comprising the southerly part of the parish. Both built their own new churches in 1910. Today's congregation emerged from the merger of four congregations, those of Elijah, Paul Gerhardt, Gethsemane, and the Church of the Blessing, in March 2001. Each congregation contributed – among other things – its church building, to wit the Church of the Blessing (), ''Gethsemane Church'', Paul Gerhardt Church, and Elijah Church (, now a museum for children). The present-day congregation provides services of worship in the first three of these and in the Elijah Domed Hall. Its parish now comprises the northeastern part of the (ドイツ語:Rosenthaler Vorstadt) ("Suburb towards Rosenthal"), which was divided among Berlin's three former boroughs of Wedding, Mitte, and Prenzlauer Berg, following the formation of Greater Berlin by the Prussian Greater Berlin Act of 1920. The population in the parish of the Northern Prenzlau Berg Congregation underwent a change after 1990, with many young people and families moving in. 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「Gethsemane Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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