 Meanwhile, the German government acquired the building and the site.The church building was updated, deconsecrated and reopened in 1996 as the Bundestag's museum on German parliamentary history ("Milestones - Setbacks - Sidetracks, The Path to Parliamentary Democracy in Germany").The two congregations of the "New Church" maintained cemeteries with the two congregations of the neighbouring Jerusalem's Church (another simultaneum), three of which are comprised - with cemeteries of other congregations - in a compound of six cemeteries altogether, which are among the most important historical cemeteries of Berlin.