Church of Our Lady

The nineteenth-century church is a replica of an early Christian basilica. The Church of Our Lady in Zurich is a neo-Romanesque Roman Catholic parish church. Among the furnishings are frescoes, mosaics, sculpted Stations of the Cross, baptismal font, main altar, pulpit and organs.

In the nineteenth century, many Catholics moved from eastern and central Switzerland to Zurich, so there was a need to build a Catholic church in a Protestant-dominated city. The construction of the Church of Our Lady in Zurich lasted from 1892 to 1894. The architect August Hardegger designed the church in the style of an early Christian basilica.

Fritz Kunz was responsible for the realization of the frescoes and mosaics. The sculptor Alois Platnik made the Way of the Cross stations. The altar and pulpit were made according to the design of August Hardegger and Otto Glaus. The altar details are created by Josef Rickenbacher, while the baptismal font is made by Richard Arthur Nüschelera.