All Saints' Church, Leipzig

The All Saints Church in Leipzig – also Church of the Ascension, All Saints' English and American Episcopal Church, Germanized Anglikanische Kirche and Anglo-Amerikanische Kirche – was an Anglican church building in the Bachviertel neighbourhood in the borough of Leipzig-Mitte.

In the 19th century, a large number of English and American artists, students and business people lived in the cultural and trade fair city of Leipzig. As a result, the first or regular Anglican services were held for the Anglo-American community as early as 1862/64. Initially, the Lutheran St. Thomas Church and the University of Music and Theatre in the Musikviertel neighbourhood were used for this purpose. To remedy this, the Saxon architect Oskar Mothes was commissioned to plan the construction of the church in 1870. His designs for the building project were used for the Anglican St. Luke's Church in the Bohemian town of Karlovy Vary, which was built between 1876 and 1877 (as a kind of "twin sister"), which may have delayed the start of construction in Leipzig. The consecration of the church in Bohemia took place on 24 June 1877. In 1883, the city of Leipzig gave the Anglican community building land in Bismarckstrasse (later Ferdinand-Lassalle-Strasse) at the northwest end of Johannapark. However, due to the prestigious location, those responsible swapped the building site a short time later for the site of the nearby Luther Church, which had been built at the same time, on the corner of Sebastian-Bach-Strasse and Schreberstrasse. In May 1884, the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone took place in the presence of the Anglican Bishop for Northern and Central Europe, Jonathan Titcomb, and prominent representatives of the city. The church was built with the support of the British and US consulates. The consecration of the Church of the Ascension took place in June 1885, and the name was later changed to All Saints Church. Mothes based his plans on the English early Gothic style. The floor plan of the church was similar to a Latin cross. There were side aisles in the nave. A high timber roof truss rose above the nave. The front on Sebastian-Bach-Strasse wa

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