Dresden Church Consecrated

Dresden’s rebuilt Frauenkirche, or Church of Our Lady, was consecrated on Sunday sixty years after it was destroyed by Allied bombs in World War Two. The painstakingly restored baroque church and its spectacular dome, originally built in 1743, is a symbol both of the wartime suffering of German civilians and of reconciliation between former enemies. The service of consecration was the culmination of an 11-year, 180 million euro (A$290 million) project that saw the church reborn after lying in ruins for almost half a century