Sankt Nicolai, Sylt

The town church of St. Nicolai is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Westerland on the island of Sylt. It is located on St. Nicolai Street, between the streets Maybachstraße and Trift.

The three-nave brick building is the largest church on the island. Due to the rapid increase in population at the turn of the 20th century, the village church of St. Niels had become too small. According to plans by architect Oskar Hossfeld, Geheimer Oberbaurat and head of the department for church construction in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin, and under local construction supervision by Westerland-born architect Heinrich Bomhoff, construction of a larger town church began in 1906, and St. Nicolai was consecrated in 1908. The church was named after Nicholas of Myra, a 4th century Greek bishop. Nicholas of Myra is the patron saint of merchants and sailors.