Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Poprad

The Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows (Slovak: Konkatedrála Sedembolestnej Panny Márie) is the main Roman Catholic church of the town of Poprad, Slovakia.

History

It was built between 1939 and 1942. The church is 48 m long and 22 m wide.^[1] The title "concathedral" refers to the fact that it is the second cathedral in the Diocese of Spiš, after St. Martin's Cathedral in Spišská Kapitula.

References

↑ Roman Catholic Church in Poprad

Cathedrals in Slovakia

Roman Catholic	St. Francis Xavier Cathedral (Banská Bystrica) St. Martin's Cathedral (Bratislava) St. Elisabeth Cathedral (Košice) St. Emmeram's Cathedral (Nitra) Our Lady of Sorrows Concathedral (Poprad) Saint Nicholas Concathedral (Prešov) Assumption of Mary Cathedral (Rožňava) St. Martin's Cathedral (Spišská Kapitula) St. John the Baptist Cathedral (Trnava) Holy Trinity Cathedral (Žilina)

Greek Catholic	Temple of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Bratislava) Temple of Birth of the Holy Mother of God (Košice) Temple of St. John the Baptist (Prešov)

Military Ordinariate	Trinitarian Church (Bratislava)

Coordinates: 49°03′22″N 20°17′51″E / 49.056148°N 20.29737°E / 49.056148; 20.29737

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