King Frederick William IV of Prussia made the original sketches for the Church of Peace in Potsdam, and the court architect Ludwig Persius drew up the design. Friedrich August Stüler continued after Persius died in 1845. The cornerstone was laid on April 14, 1845, the church was dedicated on September 24, 1848, and building continued until 1854.
The article calls it Romanesque Revival, resembling a High Medieval Italian monastery. It is a columned basilica with three naves and no transept. The central nave is 44 feet (13.5 meters) high, and a free-standing campanile rises 138 feet (42 meters). The apse mosaic comes from early thirteenth-century Venice, and the altar canopy of Siberian jasper was a gift from Tsar Nicholas I.
The Kaiser Friedrich Mausoleum was added in 1888 to 1890. The church lies within the UNESCO site Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
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