The photo above shows our apartment building in the back, the old Area Office building in the middle, and the Frankfurt Stake Center in front. These buildings are located on Porthstrasse. This has been the heart of the church in central Europe and this is where we live.
Each week different departments are packing up and leaving the Area Offices here to move to the Phoenix Haus. Every week the building becomes more vacant. Soon we’ll all be in our new home. People ask what will become of this building next. We’re not sure. Perhaps the Frankfurt Mission Offices will move here. Maybe others. It will be fun to watch the changes.
This is the back of the Stake Center. Stake Conferences are not held here, however, because there are not enough parking places (only 47). Stake Conferences for the Frankfurt Stake are held in the Darmstadt building. But this building is well-used by members and missionaries. Two wards meet here each week.
We loved seeing this pictorial history of missionaries who have departed from these Frankfurt Wards.
Here’s a better look at the old Area Office building.
Our Frankfurt Germany Mission 