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The St. Pierre Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland, was built as a Roman Catholic cathedral, however became a Reformed Protestant Church of Geneva church all through the Reformation. It is known as the adopted home church of John Calvin, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Inside the church is a wooden chair utilized by Calvin. Although this has been the web page of a cathedral because the fourth century, the prevailing building become begun beneath Arducius de Faucigny, the prince-bishop of the Diocese of Geneva, round 1160, in Gothic style.
The interior of the massive, cruciform, late-gothic church become stripped of its rood screen, aspect chapels, and all ornamental works of art, leaving a full-size, white-washed indoors that contrasts sharply with the interior of surviving medieval church buildings in countries that continued to be a part of the Roman Catholic Church. A Neo-Classical predominant facade changed into introduced inside the 18th century.
In the 1890s, Genevans redecorated a huge, facet chapel adjoining to the cathedral's guy doors in polychrome, gothic revival style. The German painter Konrad Witz painted an altarpiece, the so-known as St. Peter Altarpiece, for the Cathedral in 1444, now inside the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, which includes his composition, the Miraculous Draught of Fishes. Currently, every summer a German Protestant minister is gift, making it possible to keep bilingual offerings and conferences of both German and French Protestant worshippers.
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