The Moravian Moravian Church's prayer room is not a house of God, not a sacred building that is holy in itself. It is a meeting place for the congregation: for Sunday worship, but also for secular gatherings.
The first prayer room of this type was consecrated in Herrnhut in 1726, three months before the most famous Protestant church building of the Baroque period: the Dresden Frauenkirche. Today, congregational prayer rooms are built in this style everywhere.
It is a simple, rectangular room, entirely white and therefore very bright, without any decoration. There are no pictures, no altar, no pulpit, and no cross. In the middle of the long side is the liturgical table, where the preacher sits, expounds the Bible, and leads the service. The congregation sits on simple white wooden benches. In the past, women sat on the right, men on the left. The hall has two galleries, also entirely white. The organ is located on one gallery.
The prayer room appears very simple and functional, and therefore sometimes surprisingly simple and perhaps not so inviting to people accustomed to ornate places of worship at first glance. The value becomes apparent at second glance: everything here is focused on seeing, hearing, and praying. Nothing physical disturbs personal devotion. The aesthetic experience lies in simplicity. This allows all attention to be turned from the outside to the inside.