The story of the cathedral
The cathedral was built in the 14th century on the island of Kneiphof, at the heart of the Prussian city of Königsberg. The great philosopher Immanuel Kant lived his whole life in the city and was buried here in 1804.
The city was almost destroyed in 1944–45 and became Soviet Kaliningrad. The cathedral stood as a ruin for decades and was rebuilt in the 1990s. Today it holds a museum, Kant's tomb on the outside wall, and a giant organ with thousands of pipes.
