St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral
St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bangalore in India. Initially, Bangalore was the seat of the diocese of Mysore from 1886 to 1940 and during this time, St.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Denomination: Roman Catholic
- Description: Cathedral in Bengaluru
- Also known as: “St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral, Bengaluru”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St. John’s Church and St. Germain High School.
St. John’s Church
Church
St. John's Church is located in St. John's Hill, Cleveland Town, Bangalore Cantonment, India, in between Promenade Road and St. John's Church Road. The church is the fourth oldest Protestant church in the city, with a distinct red edifice and towering steeple, rising out of the leafy surroundings. St. John’s Church is situated 210 metres southeast of St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral.
St. Germain High School
School
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St. Germain High School is an unaided private institution in Bangalore, India, established in January 1944. The school began in the former Clergy and Archbishop's House, which had housed St. St. Germain High School is situated 100 metres northwest of St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral.
Goodwill’s Girls’ School, Bengaluru
School
Goodwill's Girls School is located at Promenade Road, Fraser Town, Bangalore Cantonment. Formerly known as the Wesleyan Tamil School, the school was renamed after Rev. Goodwill’s Girls’ School, Bengaluru is situated 420 metres northwest of St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fraser Town, Bengaluru and Cox Town.
Fraser Town, Bengaluru
Suburb
Fraser Town, Bengaluru, is an elite locality of Bangalore Cantonment, located in the Central part of the City spread over 4 km2. It was established in 1906 and is named after Stuart Mitford Fraser, who was the tutor and guardian of Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Maharaja of Mysore.
Cox Town
Quarter
Cox Town, Bengaluru is a neighborhood of the Bangalore Cantonment, located in the central part of the city and named after the last Collector and District Magistrate of the Bangalore Civil and Military Station, Alexander Ranken Cox, Indian Civil Services.
Cooke Town
Quarter
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Cooke Town is a neighbourhood in Bangalore Cantonment, in Bangalore Central, India. Built as a suburb before Indian Independence, it is one of Bangalore's oldest neighbourhoods, established when the Bangalore Civil and Military Station was governed by the Madras Government.
St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral
- Categories: Catholic cathedral, cathedral, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Bangalore (North), Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
12.99262° or 12° 59′ 33″ northLongitude
77.61125° or 77° 36′ 41″ eastOpen location code
7J4VXJV6+2GOpenStreetMap ID
way 172924463OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=cathedralOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=roman_catholicWikidata ID
Q7588004
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tagalog—“St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “圣方济各沙勿略主教座堂”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاتدرائيه القديس فرانسيس كزافييه”
- French: “cathédrale Saint-François-Xavier de Bangalore”
- French: “Cathédrale Saint-François-Xavier de Bangalore”
- French: “Cathédrale Saint-François-Xavier”
- Hindi: “सेंट फ्रांसिस जेवियर्स प्रधान गिरजाघर, बेंगलूरु”
- Indonesian: “Katedral Bangalore”
- Italian: “cattedrale di San Francesco Saverio”
- Italian: “Cattedrale di San Francesco Saverio”
- Kannada: “ಸಂತ ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿಸ್ ಕ್ಸೇವಿಯರ್ ಕ್ಯಾಥೆಡ್ರಲ್”
- Polish: “Katedra św. Franciszka Ksawerego w Bangalore”
- Polish: “Katedra św. Franciszka Ksawerego w Bengaluru”
- Spanish: “Catedral de San Francisco Javier”
- Tagalog: “Katedral ni San Francisco Javier, Bangalore”
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