This is a list of churches in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. There are many famous local churches in and around Hamburg. The St. Michaelis church is a famous Hamburg landmark, St. Nikolai church was the tallest building in the world in the 1870s and remains the second tallest structure in Hamburg.
Name | German name | Year [A] | Location [B] | Image | Notes |
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St. Peter's Church | Hauptkirche St. Petri Petrikirche | 1195 1418 (rebuild) 1842 (fire) | Mönckebergstraße, Altstadt | Gothic-style building | |
St. Catherine's Church | Hauptkirche Sankt Katharinen | 1256 16th century (rebuild) | Altstadt | ||
St. James's Church | Hauptkirche Sankt Jacobi | 1255 1963 (rebuild) | Altstadt | ||
St Mary's Church | Kirchengemeinde St. Marien | 1960 | Fuhlsbüttel | ||
St. Matthew's Church | Matthäuskirche | 1919 | |||
St. Michaelis Church | Hauptkirche Sankt Michaelis Michel | 1647 1750 (fire) | Neustadt | ||
St. Nikolai | Hauptkirche St. Nikolai | 1874 1943 (fire) | Altstadt | world's tallest building from 1874 to 1876. ruins since 1940s | |
Sankt Nikolai | 1951 | Harvestehude | Replaced old St. Nikolai | ||
Thomaskirche | Hausbruch | ||||
Auferstehungskirche | Lohbruegge | ||||
Tonndorfer Kirche | Tonndorf | ||||
Herz Jesu Kirche | Hamm | ||||
Sankt Erich Kirche | Rothenburgsort | ||||
Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche | Bahrenfeld | ||||
Kirche der Stille | Altona | ||||
Martinskirche | Rahlstedt | ||||
Gnadenkirche | St. Pauli | Gemeinde des Hl. Johannes von Kronstadt, Russian Orthodox church, former Lutheran church [1] | |||
St. Maria Magdalena Kirche | Moorburg | ||||
St. Nicolai | Altengamme | ||||
Russische Kirche des heiligen Prokop | Russian Orthodox church [2] | ||||
Neuer Mariendom, former Pfarrkirche St. Marien | St. Georg |
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