Port-au-Prince Cathedral

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The cathedral early 20th century
The destroyed cathedral in January 2010
The rubble of the cathedral on January 14, 2010, two days after the earthquake

The Cathédrale Notre-Dame de L'Assomption ( Assumption of the Virgin ) was the episcopal church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince until it was destroyed . The basilica in neo-Romanesque forms was built between 1884 and 1914 and at December 13, 1928 consecrated . The property is located in the center of the city just 650 meters north of the presidential palace .

Due to the severe earthquake on January 12, 2010 , the church collapsed to a large extent. Apart from the roofs of the naves , the two collapsed towers of the portal front one. The then Archbishop of Port-au-Prince Joseph Serge Miot died in this earthquake in the nearby Apostolic Nunciature .

In the chaos and misery that followed the quake, the ruins were looted of all valuables and further destroyed for the purpose of metal extraction. In the following ten years no security or reconstruction measures could be initiated. Only a one and a half ton bell was recovered from the rubble with the help of the MINUSTAH and brought to a safe place.

literature

  • Georges Corvington: La Cathédrale de Port-au-Prince - histoire d 'une construction . Editions Henri Deschamps, Port-au-Prince, 1978

Web links

Commons : Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Port-au-Prince  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacqueline Charles: Millions Went to Rebuild Haiti's Churches. So Why Is Notre-Dame Cathedral Still in Ruins? In: Haiti Earthquake: Ten Years Later. pulitzercenter.org, January 9, 2020, accessed July 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: press release (French) )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tamtamsenegal.com

Coordinates: 18 ° 32 ′ 56 ″  N , 72 ° 20 ′ 19 ″  W.