Zurich, Switzerland

Church of St. Peter

Churches & Cathedrals

St. Peter is one of the four main churches of the old town of Zürich, Switzerland, besides Grossmünster, Fraumünster, and Predigerkirche. Located next to the Lindenhof hill, site of the former Roman castle, it was built on the site of a temple to Jupiter. The clock tower of St. Peter was for centuries Zürich's 'official local time', and all public city clocks had to conform to it. The church clock of St. Peter has the largest tower clock face in Europe, the outer diameter of each of the four church clocks measures 8.64 metres, the minute hand 5.73 metres, the hour hand 5.07 metres, and the minute crack of the large pointer measures 0.455 metres. — Wikipedia