CHURCH BUILDING
Chaldean Cathedral of Saint Joseph
Baghdad · Karrada · Chaldean Catholic
- Locality
- Baghdad · Karrada
- Tradition
- Chaldean Catholic
- Type of place
- CHURCH BUILDING
- Coordinates
- 33.30141° N, 44.42819° E
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History: Chaldean Cathedral of Saint Joseph
The Chaldean Cathedral of Saint Joseph, known in Arabic as Mar Yusif, is the cathedral of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Baghdad. By the mid-twentieth century most of the city’s Christians had moved from the old Agd al-Nasara quarter to Karrada, so Patriarch Joseph Ghanima laid a foundation stone here on the Feast of the Holy Cross in 1952 and consecrated the cathedral in 1956. Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako was enthroned here, and the building was last renovated in 2018.
An interesting detail
Over the entrance stands a statue of Saint Joseph, with the cathedral’s name inscribed in Syriac on one side, in Arabic on the other and in English on the bell tower.