Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral, Abuja Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral, Abuja The Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral also called Abuja Cathedral Is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church located on the Funmilayo Kuti street in Garki in the city of Abuja the capital of the African country of Nigeria. It serves as the Procathedral or temporary cathedral of Abuya, and is expected to be replaced by the Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles in the same city when it is completed. Initially it was called «Church of All Saints» and had its first priest in 1983. The church
Abuja for Abuja came because of Lagos' population boom that made that city overcrowded and conditions squalid. As Lagos was already undergoing rapid economic development, the Nigerian regime felt the need to expand the economy towards the inner part of the country, and hence decided to move its capital to Abuja. The logic used was similar to the way Brazil planned its capital, Brasília. The decision to move to Abuja was made by General Murtala Mohammed in 1976. Construction started in the late 1970s but, due to economic and political instability, the initial stages of the city were not complete until