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The Cathedral of Our Lady [1] (Norwegian: Vår Frue domkirke), also commonly known as the Church of Our Lady, [2] is the Catholic cathedral of the city of Tromsø, Norway, [3] and seat of the prelature of the same name. It is the northernmost Catholic (and Christian in general) cathedral in the world. It is located on the Erling Bangsunds square.
It belonged to the king, therefore, not the Catholic Church. This church is mentioned several times in the Middle Ages as "St. Mary's near the Heathens" (Sanctae Mariae juxta Pagano). [4] Not much is known about the previous churches on the site, but it is known that in 1711 a new church was built on this site. That church was replaced in 1803.
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire; Our Lady and St Edmund's Church, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; Shrine Church of Our Lady of Consolation and St Francis, West Grinstead, West Sussex; Church of our Lady: A Serbian Orthodox, Halifax, West Yorkshire; Our Lady and St Alphonsus Church, Hanley Swan, Worcestershire
The groundbreaking of the church was on 1 April 1964, and it was completed in 1965. [1] The new church was consecrated on 19 November 1965 by Bishop Monrad Norderval. [2] The church is built out of cast-in-place aluminium-coated concrete panels. [3] The shape of the church is believed to be a reference to the nearby twin-peaked island of Håja. [6]
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, is celebrated on Dec. 12. In New York, a church of the same name is a seminal part of the city's Spanish and Hispanic history.
As early as the late 19th century, cities such as Boston and Philadelphia operated independent school lunch programs, with the assistance of volunteers or charities. [11] Until the 1930s, most school lunch programs were volunteer efforts led by teachers and mothers' clubs. [12] These programs drew on the expertise of professional home economics ...
The Catholic Church is the second largest religious community in Norway by number of registered members. The country is divided into three Church districts – the Diocese of Oslo and the prelatures of Trondheim and Tromsø, [6] whose bishops participate in the Nordic Bishops Conference. The country is further divided into 38 parishes and three ...
Tromsø Cathedral, Norway's only wooden cathedral, built in 1861, is located in the middle of the city, and so is the small Catholic church Vår Frue ("Our Lady"). Northern Europe's oldest cinema still in use, Verdensteatret , was built in 1915–16.