St. Peter's Cathedral

The oldest building in central Copenhagen is the Catholic Church of St. Peter. Built in the middle of the XV century, it is the parish church of the German-speaking community in the city. Over the centuries, the church was repeatedly rebuilt and restored, acquiring new architectural elements characteristic of each era. As a result, today it is a mixture of Baroque and Rococo styles, as well as Romanesque and Gothic styles.

The main entrance is decorated with a colonnade completely similar to Michelangelo’s work at the Palace of the Conservatives on Capitol Hill in Rome. The interior of the temple is made in perfectly white colors, only the lightest types of marble and wood were used for its decoration. Even the organ located in the heart of the church is made in a silver scale. The only colored decorations in St. Peter’s Church are mosaics, a painted altar and pointed stained glass windows. The church has preserved fragments of frescoes of the XV century, which were almost completely destroyed by Protestants in the middle of the XVI century.