All Saints

About

The All Saints Church in Leipzig – also Church of the Ascension, All Saints' English and American Episcopal Church, Germanized Anglikanische Kirche and Anglo-Amerikanische Kirche – was an Anglican church building in the Bachviertel neighbourhood in the borough of Leipzig-Mitte.

Anglican community: In the 19th century, a large number of English and American artists, students and business people lived in the cultural and trade fair city of Leipzig. As a result, the first or regular Anglican services were held for the Anglo-American community as early as 1862/64. Initially, the Lutheran St. Thomas Church and the University of Music and Theatre in the Musikviertel neighbourhood were used for this purpose. To remedy this, the Saxon architect Oskar Mothes was commissioned to plan the construction of the church in 1870. His designs for the building project were used for the Anglican St. Luke's Church in the Bohemian town of Karlovy Vary, which was built between 1876 and 1877 (as a kind of "twin sister"), which may have delayed the start of construction in Leipzig. The consecration of the church in Bohemia took place on 24 June 1877.