CHURCH BUILDING
Cathedral of Saint Mark the Apostle
Hawally · Coptic Orthodox
- Locality
- Hawally
- Tradition
- Coptic Orthodox
- Type of place
- CHURCH BUILDING
- Coordinates
- 29.33841° N, 48.01759° E
- Identity
- Matched to a public listing
A brief history
The Coptic Orthodox cathedral of Kuwait stands on Beirut Street in Hawally, and its own site names it for Saint Mark the Apostle, whom the Coptic Church counts as its founder in Egypt. The Coptic Orthodox are the largest Orthodox body in Kuwait by a wide margin — about 60,000 members, against roughly 4,000 Armenian Orthodox and 3,500 Greek Orthodox — and they are one of the country's seven officially recognised churches.
Saints & traditions
Google Maps files it as a church; the cathedral's own website calls it a cathedral. Where the two disagree, this guide follows the building's own.