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Church · District 1 (Old Town), Zurich, Canton of Zurich

St. Peter, Zurich

St. Peter

St. Peter is a Reformed church at St.-Peterhofstatt in Zurich's Old Town, which its parish calls the town church ('Stadtkirche'), with a massive choir tower carrying a large clock face.

Why go

The Reformed parish of Zurich says St. Peter was the town church rather than a monastery church, and describes it as an important architectural monument newly built as a Protestant church after the Reformation, with a Baroque interior. The parish's visit page says entry is free for reflection, prayer and viewing, but that visitors cannot enter during services because the doors are kept closed. It says the tower can be visited only on a guided tour, with private tower tours available on request, and that photography without flash or tripod is allowed for private purposes outside services. This record is the church, not the Lavaterhaus opposite it, which houses a collection on the pastor Johann Caspar Lavater.

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Zurich

Zurich is the capital of the canton of Zurich; the City of Zurich says it took its present political structure when the old town merged with eleven neighbouring municipalities in 1893, and reached its present extent with a second incorporation in 1934. XTOUR maps the Swiss National Museum, the Kunsthaus, the Museum Rietberg and the Grossmünster, Fraumünster and St. Peter churches inside the city, and treats Lake Zurich, the Uetliberg and Einsiedeln Abbey as places reached from Zurich, not places in it.

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