Avenida Tiradentes, Praça da Catedral Maringa PR Brazil
Status:
built
Construction Dates
Finished
1972
Floor Count
15
Building Uses
- religious
Structural Types
- church
Heights
Value
Source / Comments
Spire
407 ft
Brazilian Websites
cross spire
Roof
374 ft
Inside height
276 ft
Unconfirmed
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Description • Architect: José Augusto Bellucci.
• Idealized by: Dom Jaime Luiz Coelho.
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• Started: 15.08.1958.
• Finished: 10.05.1972.
• Vitrals: 16, from artist Lorenz Osterroht.
• Cross: Wood with 7 m high, from sculptor Conrado Moser.
• Capacity: 4.500 worships.
• Latin America's second tallest monument, mainly in South America and the 10th tallest in the world.
• Architect was inspired by the Soviet sputnik satellites when he projected the modern design with conical shape of the cathedral, which was idealized by the archbishop Dom Jaime Luiz Coelho. The word poustinik assigns a person dwelling in a poustinia, that is, someone who move away from the material world to be closer to God.
• The foundation stone, a piece of marble from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome blessed by Pope Pius XII, was laid on August 15, 1958. The church was built between July 1959 and May 10, 1972, the 25th birthday of the city.
• In 21 january 1982 received the Title Catedral Basílica Menor.
• Around the Cathedral there is water mirror, fountaine reaching 5m high.
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