Built 1933 to 1941
Style Neo-Gothic
Designed : French Architects
Foundation Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV in 1933
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Visitors Timings
Everyday from 10am to 5.30 pm.
Parking : Free for 2 / 4 Wheelers
The handsome statue of St.Philomena, placed above the altar in the nave, was acquired from France in 1927 and placed in a little shrine, till it was moved to the Cathedral on its completion. In his inaugural speech, the Maharaja expressed the hope that the new church will be “strongly and securely built upon a double foundation, l namely, divine compassion and the eager gratitude of men”.
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Photographs
Tourists not allowed to take photographs inside the Church
Mass timings
Sundays & Public Holidays :
7 pm – 7.45 pm
Undoubtedly among the grandest churches in India, in the classical perpendicular-Gothic style, its foundation stone was laid “amidst a great concourse of people” on 28th October, 1933, by Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar, whose deeply cultivated Catholicism gave him as much joy in dedicating a church or a mosque as it did when he oversaw the gopuram of a favorite temple-project take shape.
The main hall, or nave, designed to seat more than 800 worshippers, is ask awesomely handsome as the Cathedral’s richly-crafted exterior. The multiple-moulded columns, bisected by Corinthian capitals, end in stately arches, which, in turn, guide the eye to vaults which spring from a sumptuous architrave, converging 55 feet above the flooring. The altar is set against arched screens of stonework which are in harmony with the arched vertical lines and tapering vaults of the structure. The stained glass windows which overlook the apse, show the birth of Jesus, the crucifixion of Christ, the Last Supper and “Lord breaking the gats of Death”. The twin spires are 175 feet in height and are visible from miles around. The elevation is a sumptuous composition of a variety of decorative elements and openings-pilastered-niches and lancet windows, all looking upward and giving body to the towers which are held together by an elaborately-carved and pedimented central piece at hip-level. Almost abutting a major road, the Cathedral yet impresses with its intended monumentality.
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CONVENT stand at the north end of Church Road, which borders Government House on the west.
The Roman Catholic Mission was established in Mysore City by the celebrated Abbe Dubois, soon after the Restoration of 1799.
The many activities of the Mission are directed by two European priests, and by the nuns of the Good Shepherd of Angers, who, in and around the convent, supervise day schools, an orphanage and a rescue home. These, by arrangement with the Reverend Mother Superioress, they are always pleased to show to visitors. ‘the convent itself is a fine, commodious building, and stands in a typically peaceful and well-tended garden.
The teaching in the convent schools is excellent; their results in the trinity College of Music examinations being, year by year, brilliant.
Just beyond the convent is the parish church, dedicated to St. Joseph. Its very handsome gates were presented by H.H. the Maharaja. There is a congregation of some 1,500 members or catechumens; and there are boarding, industrial and day schools for boys.
A small church at Anepaleam, in the Krishnamurtipuram Extension, has lately been built for the Catholic community in the south-west of the city.
