Rare Pencil Sketch of Lagos Cathedral of the Holy Cross Church

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Rare Pencil Sketch of the Catholic Cathedral Church for Lagos (Prospective) ,Also known as the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.


Apparently, it was the First Cathedral to be built in Lagos.

The first cathedral (which was a pro-cathedral) building was inaugurated in 1881 and built by stonemasons and architects Lazarus Borges da Silva and Francisco Nobre. As time went on, the population of the Catholics increased. Ships arrived regularly from Bahia and the church will not occupy all the worshippers. This called for the building of another bigger and more ornate and of Gothic design and as such the cathedral was demolished in 1934.

The old cathedral brings to memory the ordination of the first three Yoruba priests, late monsignors Lawrence Layode, Julius Onih, and Stephen Adewuyi in 1929 by Bishop Thomas Brodericks, the apostolic vicar of Western Nigeria after the death of Bishop Ferdinand Terrien .

The current church building, a French gothic style architecture with its foundation stone laid on 6 August 1934 by Bishop Francis O'Rouke and was completed in 1939.

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