The most important day of the year 2000 was without doubt the 13th February when the new pinnacle cross was handed over by his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the destruction of Dresden. This present was financed through British donations and made by British hands.  

Work on the façade continued in 2000. The main cornice, starting at 24.3 m and ending at 26.4 m, with its triangular gables above the main entrances and the round arches in the area of the corner towers was placed. The five attic layers above the main cornice followed. The outer wall had now reached a height of approximately 28.3 m. The masonry back-up was laid in all sections up to the same height. 

The carpenters built laggings for the vaults between the inner piers and the outer walls. These form the upper termination of the church room. The small brick groin vaults above the choir galleries were built first. The caisson vaults in the area of entrances B, D and F then followed. This work could only be carried out after the projecting arches above the oval windows behind the triangular gables had been finished.  

The lower cornice was completed as a basis or foundation as it were for the inner dome above the church room. The stonework of the inner dome began in the same year.  

The canopy was raised for a third time between 8th to 11th May 2000. A height of approximately 45 m had now been reached.