The Marktkirche, also called the Marienkirche, gives Halle its signature skyline. Two pairs of towers — the older Hausmannstürme to the west and the bright blue-roofed twin towers to the east — frame a single Late Gothic hall church. Together with the free-standing Red Tower, they make up the famous Fünf Türme, the five towers seen on every postcard of the city.
Inside, the church holds a Reformation-era altar with paintings from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, the funeral mask of Martin Luther (taken in nearby Eisleben), and a fine pulpit. The composer George Frideric Handel was baptised here; Bach played the organ. The west towers can be climbed for a close-up view of the rooftops.