1954 – Cathedral of Maria Assumpta, Owerri, Nigeria
Architect: Hooper & Mayne
The cathedral project in Owerri was led by the diocese and its Irish Bishop,
The cathedral project in Owerri was led by the diocese and its Irish Bishop,
The last large Roman Catholic cathedral to be built in Ireland,
In 1930 Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was commissioned to provide a design which would be an appropriate response to the Giles Gilbert Scott designed Neo-gothic Anglican cathedral then emerging at the other end of Hope Street.
These are the fourth and fifth churches built on this site since 1818.
Carlos V was the first king to express an interest in constructing a cathedral in Madrid,
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels replaced the smaller former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana,
Construction of the Romanesque Cathedral of St Martin in Lucca,