# Sankt Ignatius

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Sankt Ignatius is a Roman Catholic church in Frankfurt am Main, designed by architect Gottfried Böhm with a striking concrete structure. Its tent-like shape gives the building a clear architectural silhouette. The design evokes the wandering people of God in the desert. A triangular altar window shows the Burning Bush.

After its 1964 consecration, the building served the parish community founded in 1930 for decades. In 2014, it became a rectorate church. That change placed it within the newly formed Dom St. Bartholomäus parish structure. A Filipino congregation and the Catholic university community shape its religious life.

The interior also holds baroque figures, including a Madonna and Child from the early seventeenth century. A small Pietà comes from Upper Italy. Two side chapels flank the altar, and a surrounding window band carries rose motifs through the concrete space. Beneath the main church space, a baptismal chapel holds a marble font.

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## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_SanktIgnatius_67471d828c3d1fed50c86c88_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:St-ignatius-frankfurt.jpg)
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