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St. Thomas Church is a late-Gothic Lutheran hall church in central Leipzig, home to the Thomanerchor boys' choir founded around 1212. Johann Sebastian Bach served as its music director from 1723 until his death in 1750 and is buried inside. Allied bombing damaged the church in 1943.

St. Nicholas Church is one of Leipzig's main churches, begun in Romanesque style in 1165 and rebuilt as a Gothic hall church in the 16th century, with Baroque additions including its tower in the 18th century. In 1989 it became the starting point of the Monday Demonstrations against communist rule.