Berlin's unconventional, sex-positive 'gin church' is worth a trip

Nonconformity, otherness - it's a common thread in the 150-year-old church and its congregation. Photo: Visualhunt

Gin bottles as windows, sex workers using the public restrooms out front, a pastor who's unafraid of leather: Berlin's Church of the Twelve Apostles only seems normal if you're not looking hard enough.

The Church of the Twelve Apostles in Berlin is a normal-seeming church at first glance, all red bricks and a dramatic spire in the south-western neighbourhood of Schoeneberg.