There are places with a special aura because they are related not only to the history of the city but also the worldwide famous people. That is why coming to the Thomaskirche, turn on something from Bach in your headphones to better feel the atmosphere of the place.

Why Bach? Because there the great composer served as cantor for many years – the director of the boys' choir, one of the oldest not only in Germany but entire Europe. In the Church, there is the grave of the composer, close to it – a monument.

The church was built in the 13th century, at that time there already was a monastery. And when the minstrel from India came to the monks and offered them the relics of St. Thomas, the abbot of the monastery decided to build an impressive cathedral, corresponding to the significance of the received shrine.

The construction of the temple was rather difficult and long. We can say that it was building until the middle of the 18th century. Now its main feature is a fine octagonal tower, which height after reconstruction was about 68 meters.

The facade was completely made only in the 19th century: the architect Lipsius examined the condition of the building and decided to replace the old and damaged Gothic elements with severe neo-Gothic ones.

One of the main architectural features of the church is its roof with an incline of 63 degrees: the steepest gable roof in Germany.

Thomaskirche has relatively many organs, there are two of them. The first is a romantic one made by William Sauer in 1889. Initially, it was an organ with 63 registers, but in 1908 it was decided to modernize an instrument, enlarging the number of registers to 88. Now, the organ is considered the most suitable for performing German romantic music.

The second organ is more modern, it was installed in 2000. Herald Vel created the instrument by state order – a copy of the previous one, which was in the church in the first half of the 18th century.

And in 2006, Herald Vel offered to the church a portable organ, performing more chamber music.