CHURCH BUILDING
Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Istanbul
Istanbul · Roman Catholic
- Locality
- Istanbul
- Tradition
- Roman Catholic
- Type of place
- CHURCH BUILDING
- Coordinates
- 41.04462° N, 28.98585° E
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History: Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Istanbul
The Holy Spirit Cathedral, often called Saint Esprit, is the cathedral church of Istanbul’s Latin Catholic apostolic vicariate. Built in the mid-1840s under Bishop Julien Hillereau, it is associated with architects Gaspare Fossati and Achille Bottazzi. Its Baroque design uses a three-aisled basilica plan. A historic crypt beneath the church contains the graves of Hillereau and Giuseppe Donizetti, the Italian musician known in Ottoman Istanbul as Donizetti Pasha.
An interesting detail
A statue of Pope Benedict XV was placed in the cathedral courtyard in 1921.