Wipkingen

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File:Karte Quartier Wipkingen.png
The quarter of Wipkingen in Zürich
File:Zuerich Wipkingen KGH.jpg
Community hall (Kirchgemeindehaus Haus für das Volk) at the Limmat, locality of the Zentrum für Migrationskirchen
File:Zürich - Bucheggplatz - Rosengartenstrasse IMG 2168.JPG
Rosengartenstrasse, seen from Bucheggplatz
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Several trains passing through Wipkingen tunnel

Wipkingen is a quarter in the district 10 in Zürich.

It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zürich in 1893.

The quarter has a population of 15,446 distributed on an area of 2.11 km².

Zentrum für Migrationskirchen (literally: Centre for migration churches) comprises eight Protestant churches from four continents, situated in the former church hall of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich in Zürich-Wipkingen, being a unique centre in Switzerland for the so-called migration churches.[1][2]

Transportation

Zurich Wipkingen railway station is a stop of Zürich S-Bahn line S24. The station is a 3 minute ride from Zürich Hauptbahnhof.

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