Augustinerkirche
Medieval friary church turned coin mint for centuries, now home to Switzerland's Christian Catholic community.
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Augustinerkirche in Zurich looks like it has always rung with hymns, but this guide follows nearly two hundred fifty years when the sound inside was hammering, not singing. It traces the Augustinian friars who built the church around 1270 and prayed here for over two centuries, until the reformer Huldrych Zwingli convinced the city council to break from Rome in 1524 and the monastery went silent. Listen for what moved into the nave and the holiest part of the building once wine presses and workshops replaced the monks, a use that gave the square outside its name.
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