Your favourite churches...show us!

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Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Maputo . Mozambique

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The first Catholic church I ever stepped foot in, granted for a school field trip when I was 9:

La Misión de San Francisco de Asís
(La Misión de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores)
San Francisco, California, USA

It was founded five days before the United States declared independence from Britain on 29 June 1776 and is the oldest building still standing in San Francisco. The original adobe mission is the smaller building to the left. The larger Basilica to the right was built in 1913 after the 1906 earthquake:

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“Mission Dolores” is also home to the only cemetery in San Francisco (save for the San Francisco National Cemetery in the Presidio, which is a military cemetery on federally owned land) as the city outlawed cemeteries in 1912 and exhumed thousands of the deceased, reinterring them 12 miles south of the city in Colma, CA. The Mission was spared such dishonor due to its status as a historical site:

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San Junípero Serra, Padre de California, ruega por nosotros.

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The Catholic Church of St Stephen, on State Highway 1, near the town of Kuku in New Zealand - I attended Mass there last week:

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St Joseph’s Catholic Church in the town of Levin, NZ:

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St Mary’s Catholic Church in Otaki, NZ:

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Cardinal John Dew, Archbishop of Wellington (far right), celebrates the creation of a new parish encompassing all of the churches listed in this post:

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La Catedral de Santa María la Menor
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

(The oldest church in the Western Hemisphere, commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1504.)

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The Mission San Conrado is a small church in Los Angeles sandwiched between the Pasadena Freeway and Dodger Stadium. It is served by priests from the much larger St. Peter’s Italian Church, and was named for St. Conrad of Parzham. The parish was founded in 1939, and the first church was just a converted house. The present church was built in 1967.

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www.missionsanconrado.org

San Conrado History

San Conrado Mission History
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Here in Wellington, New Zealand, we have three cathedrals.

Here is our beautiful Catholic cathedral, seat of the Archbishop of Wellington, John A Cardinal Dew:

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Here is the Anglican Cathedral of St Paul, seat of the Anglican Bishop of Wellington, Justin Duckworth:

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Here is the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, seat of the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of New Zealand, Myron:

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The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham - Hoston, Texas, United States.

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St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand:

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St Therese Catholic Chapel in Tauranga, New Zealand. Opened by the Bishop of Hamilton, Stephen Lowe.

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Priest sitting in church.

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It is very simple, but I am sure serves its purpose well.
 
St John the Baptist Catholic Cathedral in Norwich, Norfolk in England:

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Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima in Nampula , Mozambique

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Not really a favorite church, but a neat picture I took at an interfaith chapel in Beaver Creek. We went to the catholic mass that evening. I liked how the glowing part in the middle looks like an altar, and the glass doors remind me of angel wings.
Many blessings to the good people of St Clare of Assisi in Edwards Colorado for offering mass services easily accessible to vacationers.

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St Mary’s Catholic Church in Nelson, New Zealand:

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St Elias Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Auckland, New Zealand:

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This used to be the cathedral of Turku during medieval times when Finland was still a Catholic country. Now it’s a lutheran church.

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This is what it used to look like.

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The altar.

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A little closer. Note the paintings in the ceiling.

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From the altar to the back of the church.

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This is the skull of St. Henry the bishop who was martyred on the ice of lake Köyliö. He is the patron saint of the churches in Turku and Nousiainen and also the heavenly intercessor of Finland. The skull is kept in the church.

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The tomb of Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden, inside the church. There are other tombs as well but I won’t add the pictures here.
 
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We traveled in our RV to Waldport, Oregon and I attended this little Catholic Church on a Sunday…the Priest, a Deacon, and I were the only ones at the early Mass…
 
Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic Church - San Antonio, Texas, United States

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