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The Berliner Dom, known in English as the Berlin Cathedral, is a religious building of the Evangelical Church in Germany, located in the city of Berlin, Germany.

Its construction took place between 1895 and 1905, on the site formerly occupied by a Baroque cathedral erected by Johann Boumann, completed in 1747 and renovated in 1822 by the Berlin architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in neoclassical style. This original cathedral was demolished in 1894 by order of Emperor Wilhelm II, being replaced by the present one, designed by Julius Raschdorff in a neo-baroque style typical of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

During the Second World War, the cathedral suffered severe damage due to bombing, remaining with a temporary roof until 1975, when reconstruction work began. These works were completed in 1993, with a new design of the upper part, simpler and lower than the original design.

The crypt of the Hohenzollern, known in German as Hohenzollerngruft, is located in this cathedral and houses the sarcophagi of various members of the Hohenzollern family, in chronological order, with numbering corresponding to the tombs in the crypt, and the dates in parentheses indicating the years of birth and death, not the beginning of the reign.

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