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Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption

General Information

Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Cathedral

Location

Location: , , ,
Address: Piazza Duomo
Coordinates: 38° 11' 31.56" N    15° 33' 18" E
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Excerpt from Wikipedia

Messina Cathedral (Italian:Duomo di Messina; Basilica Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Messina, Sicily. Formerly the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Messina, it became in 1986 the archiepiscopal seat of the Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela.

In June 1947 Pope Pius XII granted it the status of a minor basilica.

The current building is the final result of some twentieth-century reconstructions, which took place following the disastrous earthquake that struck Messina in 1908 and the heavy damages that happened during World War II. The clock tower has the largest astronomical clock in the world.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Messina Cathedral" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    20029630
  • Published on:
    01/08/2007
  • Last updated on:
    16/05/2015
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