About us

Berlin Cathedral is a vibrant place that embodies the Christian faith with its own parish community. It currently includes approximately 1.800 women, men and children, with more joining every month.

The Cathedral parish is a so-called personal parish, i.e. any Evangelical Christian who has been baptised and who lives in Berlin or the vicinity can become a member of the Cathedral parish. You can submit a membership application, and are warmly invited to join an introductory talk with one of the Cathedral Deans. The Cathedral is a church for Christians throughout the entire city.

All of our parish members have, at some point, consciously decided on Berlin Cathedral; they want to belong and play an active role in this community. The number of volunteers is correspondingly high. Whether it is for children’s services of worship, spiritual workshops or Taizé Vespers – everywhere women and men from the parish are giving up their time and getting involved. Services of worship, events and festivals held on Sundays also typically enjoy a large number of parishioners.

Special feature of the Cathedral parish and its work

Berlin Cathedral - or more correctly the ‘Oberpfarr- und Domkirche zu Berlin’ - occupies a special position within the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). It belongs to the Union of Protestant Churches (UEK) and has representative functions for the Protestant Church throughout Germany. Special services are regularly held in Berlin Cathedral to mark significant church and national occasions and anniversaries. These include, for example, the funeral services with a state act for the deceased former German presidents Johannes Rau (2006), Richard von Weizsäcker (2015), Roman Herzog (2017) and Wolfgang Schäuble (2024), the funeral service for the President of South Africa Nelson Mandela (2013), the memorial service with Federal President Joachim Gauck for the victims of the Armenian genocide (2015), the memorial service for the victims of the Nice attack (2016) or the ecumenical memorial service to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. anniversary of the end of the Second World War (2020). Many of these services are broadcast live on television and take place in ecumenical fellowship.