Saint Canute’s Cathedral

St. Canute's Cathedral, also known as Odense Cathedral, is named after the king Canute the Saint, otherwise Canute IV. It is a fine example of Brick Gothic architecture.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Lutheran
  • Description: cathedral in Denmark
  • Also known as: “Sankt Knuds Kirke” and “St. Canute’s Cathedral”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Odense City Hall and Hans Christian Andersen’s Childhood Home.

Town hall
Photo: Kaare, CC BY-SA 3.0.
houses the administrative offices of in the city of on the Danish island of . Today's building was designed by Johan Daniel Herholdt and Carl Lendorf in the Historicist style, inspired by Italian buildings such as the in which it closely resembles.

Museum
Photo: Kaare, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum, which is situated 150 metres southwest of Saint Canute’s Cathedral.

Square
Photo: Htawmonzel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Odense and Hunderup.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is the largest city on the island of in . As Denmark's third-largest city, it offers the traveller a mixture of an exciting vibrant night-life, beautiful street-scapes, great shopping opportunities & a rich cultural heritage.

Suburb
is a central-southern neighbourhood of , in , .

Suburb
is a western central neighbourhood of , in , . is situated 3 km northwest of Saint Canute’s Cathedral.

Saint Canute’s Cathedral

Latitude
55.39541° or 55° 23′ 44″ north
Longitude
10.38897° or 10° 23′ 20″ east
Roof shape
gabled
Named after
Canute IV of Denmark
Open location code
9F7G99WQ+5H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 124203862
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
building=­cathedral
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­cathedral
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­lutheran
Wiki­data ID
Q492584
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Western Frisian—“Saint Canute’s Cathedral” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “San Kanutoren katedrala”
  • Belarusian: “Сабор Святога Кнуда”
  • Chinese: “聖克努特主教座堂”
  • Czech: “Katedrála v Odense”
  • Danish: “Odense Domkirke”
  • Danish: “Sankt Knuds Kirke”
  • Danish: “Sankt. Knuds Kirke”
  • Danish: “Sct. Knuds Kirke”
  • Danish: “Skt. Knuds Kirke i Odense”
  • Danish: “Skt. Knuds Kirke”
  • Dutch: “Dom van Odense”
  • Esperanto: “Katedralo de Sankta Knuto”
  • Finnish: “Odensen katedraali”
  • Finnish: “Pyhän Knuutin kirkko”
  • French: “Cathedrale Saint-Knud d’Odense”
  • French: “cathédrale Saint-Knud d’Odense”
  • French: “Cathédrale Saint-Knud d’Odense”
  • French: “Cathédrale Saint-Knut d’Odense”
  • German: “Dom zu Odense”
  • German: “Sankt Knuds Kirke”
  • German: “Sankt-Knud-Kirche”
  • Greek: “καθεδρικός ναός του Αγίου Κνούτου”
  • Hebrew: “קתדרלת קנוט הקדוש”
  • Hungarian: “St. Knuds-székesegyház”
  • Hungarian: “Szent Kanut-székesegyház”
  • Indonesian: “Katedral Santo Knud”
  • Italian: “Cattedrale di Odense”
  • Italian: “cattedrale di San Canuto”
  • Italian: “Cattedrale di San Canuto”
  • Japanese: “聖クヌーズ修道院 (オーデンセ)”
  • Japanese: “聖クヌーズ大聖堂”
  • Japanese: “聖クヌード教会”
  • Latvian: “Svētā Knuta katedrāle”
  • Low German: “Sankt-Knud-Kark”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Odense Domkirke”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sankt Knuds kirke”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sankt Knuds Kirke”
  • Norwegian: “Sankt Knuds kirke”
  • Persian: “کلیسای جامع سنت کانوت”
  • Polish: “Katedra św. Kanuta w Odense”
  • Portuguese: “Catedral de São Canuto”
  • Russian: “Собор Святого Кнуда”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Crkva sv. Knuta u Odenseu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Crkva svetog Knuta u Odenseu”
  • Slovenian: “katedrala sv. Knuta”
  • Slovenian: “Stolnica sv. Knuta, Odense”
  • Slovenian: “stolnica sv. Knuta”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de Odense”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de San Canuto de Odense”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de San Canuto”
  • Swedish: “Odense domkyrka”
  • Swedish: “Sankt Knuds Kirke”
  • Swedish: “Sankt Knuts kyrka i Odense”
  • Swedish: “Sankt Knuts kyrka”
  • Ukrainian: “Собор Святого Кнуда”
  • Western Frisian: “Domtsjerke fan Odense”

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