The St. Jadwiga Cathedral is a majestic Catholic Church, located in Berlin at Bebelplatz. Here dwells the cardinal Archbishop Georg Sterzinsky. This beautiful Cathedral was built with the assistance of the king of Prussia of Frederick II and was named the first Catholic Church established after the reformation, in the eighteenth century.

The temple was built for 26 years, starting in 1747, and this construction has attracted a large number of Catholics in the city, who came from Silesia. Saint Jadwiga was the patroness of the region, and that led to the name of the future Cathedral.

The design of the building did a great architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, who came to this case with special responsibility. He had to build the first Catholic Church, and the result of his labors appeared in the amazing beauty of the Cathedral of Saint Hedwig. He was a real exception received while classical forms of the temples of this type, unlike its European counterparts, the Cathedral was designed in the style of the Pantheon located in Rome.

In German history happened a lot of terrible events, one of which was "crystal night: 9-10 September in 1938 there was a bloody massacre, beat and killed Jews, and Canon of the Cathedral of St. Jadwiga Bernhard Lichtenberg publicly prayed for suffering, for which he was sent to Dachau concentration camp. Before reaching a place of exile, he died, and his remains in 1965 were transferred to the crypt of the Cathedral, where it is kept today.

During the Second world war the Church suffered serious damage from shelling aviation and burned down, but in 1963 was completely renovated.