Architecture
Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows
The Old Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows, also called Cathedral of Mary Mother of Sorrows, (Arabic: كنيسة أم الأحزان, romanized: Umm al-Ahzan Church) is a Chaldean Catholic church located in Baghdad, Iraq, dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows. Consecrated in 1898, it served as the seat of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldean Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris in full communion with the Holy See in Rome, and the rest of the worldwide Catholic Church.
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Co-Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Rochester, Minnesota).
Baroque garden.
See also
- ▸Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici
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- ▸Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Tuam
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