Roman Catholic Cathedral of Khartoum
The Roman Catholic Cathedral of Khartoum , also known as St. Matthew's Cathedral , is the episcopal church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum .
It is located on the banks of the Blue Nile (intersection Sharia al-Nil and Sharia al-Mek Nimr) about 200 meters north of the Faruq Mosque .
A Catholic vicariate in Khartoum was established in 1846. After the conquest of Khartoum by the Mahdists in 1885, an earlier church building was destroyed. Construction of the three-aisled basilica began in 1908 during the time of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan . The patron was the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I.
The church interior is widened by a short transept in front of the eastern altar wall. In addition, a free-standing bell tower towers over the building. The Italian origin of many Catholic missionaries in the country is reflected in the somewhat overloaded neo-Romanesque style.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Archdiocese of Khartoum
- ^ Bernhard Streck : Sudan. Stone graves and living cultures on the Nile. DuMont, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1232-6 , p. 247.
Coordinates: 15 ° 36 '37.8 " N , 32 ° 32' 2.1" E