Sophienkirche

The Sophienkirche is a Protestant church. A baroque tower was added in 1732-34 by Johann Friedrich Grael. nIn 1891/92 the church was rebuilt to designs by Friedrich Schulze by the practice Kyllmann & Heyden, overseen by Kurt Berndt. The roof was raised and an altar niche added at the east end, and the surviving interior decoration is almost entirely from this restoration.nThere is a memorial to the poet Karl Wilhelm Ramler on the outside wall of the church’s sacristy and one on the exterior north wall of the church to the poet Anna Luise KarschnProminent graves in the churchyard include those of Carl Friedrich Zelter, founder of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, and graves from the last days of the Second World War in the adjacent Sophienstraß.