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Pondicherry, India

Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Pondicherry

Pondicherry, India

Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Pondicherry
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No longer standing

Demolished or destroyed.

Immaculate Conception Cathedral stands in Pondicherry, India, and serves as the mother church of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore. Built in the Baroque style in 1791, it succeeded an earlier church demolished in 1693. Locally it is also known as Samba Kovil, a phonetic corruption of "Saint Paul's Kovil."

Movement

Built
Type
cathedral
Place
Pondicherry, India

This building on


Location

11.93299, 79.83055