Holy Cross Cathedral, Honiara Holy Cross Cathedral, Honiara The Holy Cross Cathedral also called Catholic Cathedral of Honiara Is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church which is located in the city of Honiara on the Guadalcanal Island capital of the Solomon Islands a country in the southwest Pacific Ocean. Its history goes back to 1957 when a church was constructed that would be the first pro-cathedral or temporary cathedral dedicated to the Holy Cross in the place where Alvaro de Mendaña a Spanish navigator that carried out two expeditions to the Pacific «discovering» the Solomon Islands, is believed
Honiara the 1960s and 1970s some two-thirds of the investment into economic development in the country went into developing the infrastructure of Honiara, despite the fact that at the time only some five percent of Solomon Islanders lived there. Like Tulagi, the town did not grow substantially as a result of industrialisation. As Trevor Sofield says, "The shops and businesses in these centers served the needs of the government officials and expatriate businessmen, planters, and traders. Honiara, like many other ex-colonial cities, still reflects the political, economic and cultural structure of its former metropolitan mentor much more than it does the