St. Hedwig's Cathedral is Berlin's main Roman Catholic church. Located on Bebelplatz in the historic Mitte district, King Frederick the Great ordered its construction between 1747 and 1773, modeled after the Pantheon in Rome. Damaged during the Allied bombing in World War II, the cathedral's interior was restored from 1952 to 1963 in post-war modernist style as part of the rebuilding of the Forum Fridericianum on Bebelplatz. The cathedral closed for major renovations on 1 Sep