Dakar Cathedral
The Dakar Cathedral ( French Notre-Dame des Victoires de Dakar or Cathédrale du Souvenir Africain ) is the episcopal church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dakar in the Senegalese capital Dakar . It was consecrated on February 2, 1936 by the Archbishop of Paris Cardinal Jean Verdier . On this occasion, Henry Bordeaux, as the representative of the Académie française, gave a celebratory speech, which was mainly dedicated to the missionaries and other people who had paid for their work in Africa with their lives and whose memories should be cherished in the new cathedral.
description
Located on the Boulevard de la République , the building measures approximately 70 mx 40 m and can accommodate 2000 people. It was built in 1929 - Senegal was still a French colony at the time - using a mixture of the regional architectural style and oriental-Byzantine elements. Two tall minaret-like towers join a twenty-meter-wide dome. The building has a large garden and a primary school.
literature
- Michel Renaudeau: Gambia and Senegal APA Publ., Munich 1997, ISBN 3-8268-1392-8 .
- Anne Wodtcke: Senegal, Gambia Ed. Erde im BW-Verlag, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-8214-6530-1 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Dakar Cathedral. In: Structurae
- Sénégal360: Interior view with 360-degree panorama panning
- Notre-Dame des Victoires de Dakar: Le 75ème anniversaire de sa consécration a été célébré début février 2011 ( Memento of January 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Coordinates: 14 ° 39 ′ 55 " N , 17 ° 26 ′ 16" W.