Is it worth going inside Berlin Cathedral?

The magnificent dome of the Cathedral Church (Berliner Dom) is one of the main landmarks in Berlin's cityscape – and marks the spot of the impressive basilica housing the city's most important Protestant church. With its elaborate decorative and ornamental designs, the church interior is especially worth seeing.



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The Berlin Cathedral Today It remains an active and operational cathedral, and visitors can sit in the pews while services take place. Look out for details such as the exquisitely-carved raised pulpit, the baptismal and matrimonial chapels, the imperial staircase, the gold altar and the organ with its over 7000 pipes.

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As a World Heritage Site and host to the Shrine of the Three Kings, Cologne Cathedral is a major attraction for tourists and pilgrims, and is one of the oldest and most important pilgrimage sites of Northern Europe.

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So why is Berlin cheap? Short answer: history. Berlin had a population of over four million in the 1930s – and yet it still hasn't recovered that level of population, nearly one hundred years on. There was the devastation of WWII, division during the Cold War, and the chaos of immediate reunification in the 1990s.

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Clothing Our supervisory and security personnel are authorized to deny access to the Cathedral to guests wearing provocative garments— this in-cludes very short skirts or trousers, as well as off-the-shoulder or low-cut clothes.

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The Berlin Cathedral is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful churches in the city and impresses with beautiful decorations outside and inside. Special attention is paid to the baptismal and wedding church, the Imperial staircase, the Hohenzollern Crypt, the Cathedral Museum and the impressive dome.

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As a World Heritage Site and host to the Shrine of the Three Kings, Cologne Cathedral is a major attraction for tourists and pilgrims, and is one of the oldest and most important pilgrimage sites of Northern Europe.

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Among the most notable sarcophagi are those of Frederick I and Sophie Charlotte, the first King and Queen of Prussia and the grandparents of Frederick the Great. The cathedral's dome was bombed during World War II, and the resulting collapse and fire damaged and destroyed some of the crypt.

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VIPs and celebrities tend to be concentrated in the downtown Mitte district.

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