The embankment of the river Spree is a great place to see the museum island and its main building - the cathedral. Wikipedia Berlin Cathedral (it. Berliner Dom) - the largest evangelical church in Germany. Included in the EKD. Located on the Museum Island of Berlin.

The cathedral was built in the years 1894-1905 by the project of Julius Rashdorf as the main church of Prussian Protestants and the court church of the ruling Hohenzollern dynasty. The cathedral is made in the Baroque style. Initially, the richly decorated building of Silesian granite, reaching a height of 114 meters with a dome. After World War II, a seriously damaged cathedral was reconstructed, and now it has a more modest height of 98 meters (slightly less than St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg). Solemnly opened on June 6, 1993. The hopper of the Hohenzollern dynasty is also open to visitors, where 70 of the 89 remaining graves are represented; among them is the luxurious sarcophagus of the Great Elector and his wife Dorothea.

The organ for the cathedral was built by the famous German organ master of the Romantic era, Wilhelm Sauer.

In front of the cathedral is the Lustgarten Park, which for centuries has been constantly changing its appearance. After the reconstruction, the park acquired its modern appearance on September 24, 1999. Now Lustgarten is a green lawn with a lawn, as Karl Friedrich Schinkel once conceived, with a fountain in the center. Translated with Google Translate