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Sankt Petri Kirke

Sankt Petri Kirke

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In medieval times, St. Peter’s Church, or Sankt Petri Kirke in Danish, was a Catholic parish church. It is the oldest church in Copenhagen, as the nave and the choir date back to the 1400s. Please notice the Gothic style with the distinctive ogival windows. The fine spire adorning5 the church is from 1757. To the northeast, behind the church, the old sepulchral chapels from the 1600s and 1700s can be found. Since 1585, it has served as a parish church for Germans, which it still does today. Sermons are still delivered in German, and the sepulchral chapels are rich in stories about the Danish-German relations over 500 years.

Canon Foundry & The German Congregation

Originally, Sankt Petri Kirke was one of the capital’s four Catholic parish churches, but with the Reformation in the first half of the 1500s, the church was abolished and converted into a royal canon and bell foundry. In 1585, King Frederick III reopened the building as a church

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