St. Patrick's Cathedral (Karachi)
The St. Patrick's Cathedral , also Of Saint Patrick's Cathedral , located on the road Shahrah-e-Iraq in Saddar Town , the downtown section of Karachi , Sindh , Pakistan . It is the Episcopal Church of the Archdiocese of Karachi .
history
The cathedral is built on the site where the first Christian church, believed to have been built for Goa Catholics , was built in 1845, two years after the state of Sindh was annexed to British India by Charles James Napier .
The present cathedral was designed by the German Jesuit priest Karl Wagner (1821–1869). At that time Karachi was part of the Apostolic Vicariate of Bombay , which was administered by the Jesuit Order . There in Bombay Wagner was also based as an internal architect. After the Catholic mission in Karachi had consolidated and the financial resources were available, the foundation stone for the new St. Patrick`s Church was laid in 1879. Father Wagner had already died in 1869, which is why the lay brothers Fr. George Kluver SJ and Fr. Herman Lau SJ acted as site managers and completed the church - the largest Catholic church in the city and the entire region - according to his plans by 1881.
When Karachi fell to Pakistan during the partition of India in 1947 , the diocese of the same name was founded in 1948 and St. Patrick's Church was made its cathedral.
It is a three-aisled basilica with a transept in neo-Gothic or Indo- Gothic style . It was built from the yellow Gizri stone , a local variant of sandstone , is 52 meters long, 22 meters wide and holds 1,500 people.
On the forecourt of the cathedral stands the Sacred Heart -Denkmal ( Sacred Heart Monument ), which was built in 1925 of white marble.
St. Patrick`s Cathedral appeared as a motif on stamps of the Pakistani Post in 1979 and 2009.
Web links
- Website of the British Library with a historical overview and historical photo of St. Patrick`s Cathedral in Karachi
- Video recording of St. Patrick`s Cathedral Karachi
Individual evidence
- ^ Patrick Doyle: Indian engineering , Volume 22, 1898, page 268; Extract from the source in the Google book search
- ^ Jesuit Institutions in Pakistan
- ^ The last of the great churches that were constructed in Karachi, St Patrick's Cathedral
- ↑ Nearly 70% Pakistanis support Christians to build churches in Pakistan ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in; Pakistan Daily
- ↑ Description of Gizri stone
Coordinates: 24 ° 51 '42.9 " N , 67 ° 2' 6.4" E