Jaén Cathedral Jaén Cathedral The Assumption of the Virgin Cathedral is a Renaissance-style, Roman Catholic cathedral located in Santa María Square, opposite the Town Hall and the Episcopal Palace, in the center of Jaén, region of Andalusia, Spain. The cathedral stands on a site once occupied by a mosque. Construction began in 1249 atop the ruins of the mosque. The church was damaged and rebuilt on numerous occasions during the following two centuries until the sixteenth century, when several architects, Andrés de Vandelvira being the most important one, built the biggest part of the Cathedral. It was consecrated in 1724. The more
St. Francis Pro-Cathedral, Tripoli Paul the Apostle (Malta) with the church of Mary Immaculate in Benghazi. St. Francis Pro-Cathedral, Tripoli The St. Francis Pro-Cathedral or simply Church of St. Francis, is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Tripoli, Libya. The St. Francis Pro-Cathedral follows the Roman Rite or Latin rite serves as a parish church and the pro-cathedral or temporary cathedral of the Apostolic Vicariate of Tripoli ("Vicariatus Apostolicus Tripolitanus") which was created in 1630 by Pope Urban VIII. It is about 740 metres from the old cathedral of Tripoli dating back to 1928, which was converted into a mosque in