Cathedral of Saint Vincent de Paul
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)| Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul | |
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Archdiocese of Tunis | |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Cathedral |
| Leadership | Archbishop Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham[1] |
| Status | Active |
| Location | |
| Location | Tunis, Tunisia |
| Geographic coordinates | 36°48′0″N 10°10′44″E / 36.80000°N 10.17889°E |
| Architecture | |
| Type | church |
| Style | Moorish, Gothic, Neo-Byzantine |
| Groundbreaking | 1890 |
| Completed | 1897 |
| Website | |
| www | |
The Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul (
Archdiocese of Tunis and is situated at Place de l'Indépendence in Ville Nouvelle, a crossroads between Avenue Habib Bourguiba
and Avenue de France, opposite the French embassy.
The church, designed by L. Bonnet-Labranche, was built in a mixture of styles, including
belltowers owing to a shortage of funds. The reinforced concrete towers were completed in 1910 using the Hennebique technique.[3]
Cardinal
Saint Louis Cathedral.[4]
The pro-cathedral was built quickly, but its condition soon deteriorated due to the adverse ground conditions, necessitating the construction of the current cathedral.
The number of Roman Catholics in Tunisia fell rapidly following Tunisian independence from France. A
Roman Catholic Church in Tunisia
.
See also
Notes
- ^ Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul, GCatholic.org
- ^ Portal of Tunisian Monuments and Sites. "Tunis cathedral". Government of Tunisia. Retrieved 10 July 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Daniel. E. Coslett, "(Re)creating a Christian Image Abroad: The Catholic Cathedrals of Protectorate-era Tunis” in Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities across the Islamic World, ed. Mohammad Gharipour (Boston, MA: Brill, 2015), 353–75.
- ISBN 978-0-8203-0456-4.
External links
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