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Grossmünster
The
Grossmünster
("great
minster
") is a Romanesque-style
Protestant church
in
Zurich
,
Switzerland
. It is one of the four major churches in the city (the others being the
Fraumünster
,
Predigerkirche
and
St. Peterskirche
). Its congregation forms part of the
Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich
. The core of the present building near the banks of the Limmat was constructed on the site of a
Carolingian
church, which was, according to legend, originally commissioned by
Charlemagne
. Construction of the present structure commenced around 1100 and it was inaugurated around 1220.
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