Religious News Service Photographs

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Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.

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Title:
Berlin church to be rebuilt.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: BERLIN CHURCH TO BE REBUILT #S-1289 BERLIN -- The Kaiser William Church, one of Germany’s most fashionable pre-war edifices, although repeatedly hit during the heavier bombings, will be rebuilt. A sum of 300,000 marks is being sought to restore the sanctuary to its former glory. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-14-5)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany), Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., Church buildings--Reconstruction--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357017
Title:
Niemoeller's parsonage in ruins.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: NIEMOELLER’S PARSONAGE IN RUINS #1286 BERLIN -- His parsonage as well as his church were ruined in Pastor Martin Niemoeller’s Dahlem pastorate. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-14-5)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Niemöller, Martin, 1892-1984., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Parsonages--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Dahlem (Berlin, Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357016
Title:
Niemoeller parsonage.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: NIEMOELLER PARSONAGE #S-1285 BERLIN -- This view of Pastor Martin Niemoeller’s pre-war parsonage is typical of the destruction wrought by the war on the churches of Germany. Materials for repairs and skilled workers are impossible to obtain due to shortages and the priorities of hospitals and schools. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-14-5)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Niemöller, Martin, 1892-1984., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Parsonages--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Dahlem (Berlin, Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357015
Title:
Bismarck surveys wreckage of Berlin's Dom.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: 1298 BISMARCK SURVEY WRECKAGE OF BERLIN’S DOM BERLIN -- Comparatively undamaged, Bismarck’s statue still stands in the Dom, Protestant cathedral here, surveying the ruins of the burial chapels. Tomb in foreground is that of Emperor Friederick, who ruled over Germany in 1888. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-5-L-O-DEN)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Berliner Dom., Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898--Statues., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Frederick III, German Emperor, 1831-1888--Tomb., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Crypts--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356954
Title:
American church in Berlin a war casualty.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: 1296 AMERICAN CHURCH IN BERLIN A WAR CASUALTY BERLIN -- Twisted girders and shattered walls surround the tower of the wrecked American Church here. The tower was the gift of John D. Rockefeller. Parish house of the church also was destroyed. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-5-L-O-DEN)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
American Church in Berlin., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356953
Title:
Berlin's Kaiser William church in ruins.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: BERLIN’S KAISER WILLIAM CHURCH IN RUINS #1290 BERLIN -- Twisted girders are mute evidence of the destruction wrought on the historic Kaiser William Memorial Church here. Pastor of the church is Dr. Gerhard Jacobi, who was called to appear before the Gestapo more than 100 times. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-14-5)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany), Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356951
Title:
Berlin's Dom.
Description:
Text transcribed from captions on reverse: The heavily damaged Dom, Berlin’s Protestant Cathedral, where the Kaisers attended divine worship before World War I. This church was vandalized for 8 days following the occupation of Berlin. Most of the tombs of former German emperors and princes desecrated. At the right can be seen the towering St. Mary’s Church, one of the oldest sanctuaries in Brandenburg Provinces, and one of the mostly lightly [sic] damaged of the Berlin churches. Provost Heinrich Grueber, who is Protestant Counsellor in the Berlin City Government, is pastor of St. Mary’s. Domprediger Dr. ____Doehring standing amid the ruins of the Dom, Berlin’s Protestant Cathedral. Dr. Doehring, who is still active in German church affairs, was the Kaisers’ pastor before World War I. During the Nazi regime he resisted efforts of the Hitlerites to “Nazify” the Christian Church. Services of the Dom parish are now held in a hall, as are most of church services in Berlin.
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Berliner Dom., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Grüber, Heinrich, 1891-1975., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Clergy., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Clergy--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., Theologians--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356938
Title:
Bomb damage in Berlin's Dom.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: BOMB DAMAGE IN BERLIN’S DOM #1265 BERLIN -- In interior view of the Dom, Berlin’s Protestant cathedral shows the blasted altar as well as the wrecked floor and the ancient burial vaults beneath. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-12-5)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Berliner Dom., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Crypts--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356935
Title:
Berlin's Dom open to the skies.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: BERLIN’S DOM OPEN TO THE SKIES #1263 BERLIN -- Sunlight streams through the shattered cupola of the Dom, Berlin’s Protestant cathedral. The outside of the cupola still bears the bullet marks dating from the 1918 revolution when the Sparticians thought troops were occupying the Dom and fired on it. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-12-5)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Berliner Dom., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., Domes--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356933
Title:
Bomb damage in Berlin's Dom.
Description:
Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
Subject names:
Berliner Dom., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Crypts--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356832
Title:
Bismarck surveys wreckage of Berlin's Dom.
Subject names:
Berliner Dom., Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898--Statues., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Frederick III, German Emperor, 1831-1888--Tomb., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Crypts--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356826
Title:
Berlin church to be rebuilt.
Description:
Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
Subject names:
Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany), Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., Church buildings--Reconstruction--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356822
Title:
Niemoeller parsonage.
Description:
Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
Subject names:
Niemöller, Martin, 1892-1984., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Parsonages--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Dahlem (Berlin, Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356818
Title:
East Berlin.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Die neue Gedachtniskirche ist fertig. Dieser Tage wurde der Neubau der Gedächtniskirche - ein Entwurf des Prof. Eiermann - fertiggestellt. Für die Berliner wurde der Neubau zum bestgehassten Objekt der letzen Jahre, “Gasometer” mit Fabrikschornstein” sind noch die zahmsten Ausdrücke, die für den Neubau geprägt wurden. Foto: KEYSTONE KESTONE - Berlin, 15.7.1961 1/36/43621/n/Pel
Creator:
Keystone (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Eiermann, Egon, 1904-1970 (architect)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany), Evangelische Kirche in Berlin-Brandenburg--Buildings.
Topics:
Church architecture--Germany--Berlin., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Functionalism (Architecture)--Germany--Berlin., Architecture, Modern--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355961

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