The Alte Kirche Höngg (old church of

Höngg Höngg is a quarter in district 10 in Zürich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zürich in 1934. The quarter has a population of 21,186, distributed across an area of 6.98 km2. Höngg is renowned f ...

) is a

Reformed church Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Christian, Presbyterian, ...

in the district 10 of Zürich. Its congregation forms part of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich. Based on

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research, the basement of the church relates to the 8/9th century. Therefore, the vineyard on which this church is on top of is a point for people to pray and meet since over 1200 years. Over the last few centuries, the church has been extended in size and structure before getting the shape it has today. However, at the beginning of the

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in 1523 a few local inhabitants removed all the statues and pictures from within the church. It was further in 1863 where the tower roof together with the

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was renewed.

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