page_title: Jerusalem Church (Berlin)
section_title: As a Romanian Orthodox place of worship (1944–1945)
hierarchical_section_title: Jerusalem Church (Berlin) / As a Romanian Orthodox place of worship (1944–1945)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Kirche zu den Erzengeln Michael und Gabriel, Berlin-Westend English: Romanian Orthodox Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel in 14052 Berlin-Westend, Heerstr. 63
context_page_description: Jerusalem Church is one of the churches of the Evangelical Congregation in the Friedrichstadt, a member of the Protestant umbrella organisation Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The present church building is located in Berlin, borough Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, in the quarter of Friedrichstadt. Jerusalem Church is fourth in rank of the oldest oratories in the town proper.
context_section_description: In August 1943, the Kingdom of Romania bought the church building and the pertaining rectory and conveyed them to the Romanian Orthodox congregation of Berlin (est. September 1940). The church was then refurbished according to Orthodox liturgical requirements. On 24 January 1944 Archpriest Emilian Vasiloschi consecrated Jerusalem Church as the Romanian Orthodox Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel and celebrated the first service with the congregants from Berlin.
  This was not to last for long, because most buildings in the neighbourhood, including Jerusalem Church and rectory, were destroyed in the area bombardment organised and carried out by the United States Army Air Forces on 3 February 1945. Berlin's Romanian Orthodox congregation continued in rented locations until 2006, when a new building was acquired in Westend (Berlin).
caption: The new Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, est. in 2006, Westend, Berlin
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