Christchurch Greyfriars
London, England, UK Bombed 1940 The Disappointed Tourist: Christchurch Greyfriars, Ellen Harvey, 2021. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 24 x 18″ (61 x 46 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. Christchurch Greyfriars, also known as Christchurch Newgate Street, located in London opposite St. Paul’s Cathedral, was a church built to the design of Sir Christopher Wren to […]
Dresden Synagogue
Dresden, Germany
Arson 1938
Frauenkirche
Dresden, Germany
Bombed 1945
Halbmond Camp Mosque
Wundsdorf, Germany
Demolished 1926
Hirschfeld Institute
Berlin, Germany
Closed 1933
Michelsberg Synagogue
Wiesbaden, German Arson 1938 This synagogue was built by the architect Philipp Hoffman for the progressive Reform Jewish congregation of Wiesbaden, opening in 1869. It was burned down in 1939 as part of the Nazi Kristallnacht attack on Jewish communities throughout Germany. A memorial was erected on the site in 2011 that shows the outline […]
Paulinerkirche
Augustplatz, Leipzig, German Demolished 1968 During our student days from 1957 to 1963 we were members of the Leipzig University Choir (“Unichor”), whose home was the University Church of St. Pauli. In addition to smaller musical tasks in the university services and the cultivation of the works of Heinrich Schütz, the motets, oratorios and passions […]
St. Lambertus
Immerath, Nord-Rhein Westfalen, Germany
Demolished 2018
Tempelhof Airport
Berlin, Germany
Closed 2008
Teufelsberg Listening Station
Berlin, Germany Closed 1992 I visited Teufelsberg a long time ago, can’t remember much of the visit. Only remember that in the big dome there were a group of teenagers smoking weed, it was a really strange atmosphere. Andre Requested By Mira O. Teufelsberg (trans. Devil’s Hill) is a non-natural hill in Berlin created out of […]