Chapel of Reconciliation
The Chapel of Reconciliation was built to replace a historic church (built in 1894), which was dynamited in 1985 because it was located on the dividing line, in the middle of No Man’s Land, between East and West Berlin. This Chapel is dedicated to the many victims who lost their lives at the Berlin Wall. Since 1999, the chapel on the grounds of the Berlin Wall Memorial has been part of the worldwide Cross of Nails Community dedicated to promoting peace and reconciliation between peoples. Today’s Chapel of Reconciliation not only bears the name of its predecessor built in 1894 but also contains rubble from its walls. The preserved altar retable with its heavily damaged depiction of the Last Supper hangs in exactly the same place as in the old church. The former sandstone altar plate was visibly embedded in the clay floor as a memorial and a foundation for the new altar. (Berlin, Germany)
