page_title: St. George's Anglican Church, Berlin
section_title: The old St. George's Church
hierarchical_section_title: St. George's Anglican Church, Berlin / The old St. George's Church
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gedenktafel, Büro Grüber, Oranienburger Straße 20, Berlin-Mitte, Deutschland English: Memorial plaque, Büro Grüber, Oranienburger Straße 20, Berlin-Mitte, Deutschland
context_page_description: St. George's Church is an Anglican church in Berlin, Germany, a parish of the Diocese in Europe of the Church of England. The original building was erected on Monbijou Park in 1885, but during the Second World War was destroyed in allied bombings. The original site on Oranienburger Straße happened to be in what had become the Soviet sector of Berlin in 1945 and was therefore abandoned and the ruins removed in 1949. In 1950 the congregation built a new church on the corner of Preußenallee and Badenallee in Neu-Westend, part of the Westend locality of Berlin in the British sector. The church served as the garrison church of the British Army during the Allied occupation, and reverted to civilian control in 1994.
context_section_description: The church was built under the patronage of Crown Princess Victoria. The cornerstone was laid on 24 May 1884, Queen Victoria's birthday. The construction was financed through donations to the royal couple on the occasion of their silver wedding, with provision for a minister. The church was built of Silesian granite and glacial erratics, covered with a patterned slate roof cladding. British relatives of the princess donated the stained-glass windows. The church, seating 300, was inaugurated on 19 November 1885. The Kings of Prussia, who were also German Emperors, were the church's patrons. On their visits to Berlin, Queen Victoria and King George V visited the church in 1888 and 1913, respectively. During World War I it was the only Anglican Church in Germany which was allowed to remain open, thanks to  William II who was then its patron.
   
  After the war the congregation developed not only for Britons but also for American, German, Indian, Chinese, Finnish and Russian Christians. In 1921 Charles Andrew Schönberger came to Germany and opened a branch of the Anglican Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel in Berlin, opposite St. George's on Oranienburger Straße 20/21. A number of proselytes among the Jews of Berlin joined the Anglican congregation. When the Nazi persecution of Jews and even Jewish-born Christians (see Prussian Union of Churches § Protestants of Jewish descent) became more and more unbearable, the Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel relinquished its premises on Oranienburger Straße to Heinrich Grüber's help organisation, Grüber Bureau, on 7 December 1938. The Grüber Bureau cooperated with Bishop George Bell, who had engaged his sister-in-law Laura Livingstone to run the Berlin office of the International Church Relief Commission for German Refugees. A plaque at the new building on Oranienburger Straße 20 commemorates the joint efforts of the Anglicans and the Confessing Church.
  St. George's, which was closed after the outbreak of the Second World War, was hit by allied bombing in 1943 and 1944. The ruins of the church, which after 1945 was in the Soviet Sector of Berlin, were later demolished by the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
caption: Plaque for the Grüber Bureau and its family school, opened 1939 for pupils expelled from state schools due to their Jewish descent
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