Cathedral Queen Mundi of Buyumura
The cathedral of the archdiocese of Buyumbura is not dedicated to the Queen of Peace but to Regina Mundi, the Queen of the World. Led between 1956 and 1958 by Lake Tanganica, this large temple of modern lines is the heart of the Catholic Church in the largest city of Burundi.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The first stone was placed on 15 August 1956, solemnity of the Assumption, and the temple began to function in 1958; it was consecrated on 8 January 1962 by Monsignor Mojaisky-Perelli, apostolic delegate.
- His plans were drawn by brother Alban (Emil Büchi), a missionary of Africa ("white father") of Swiss origin, who directed the construction; the windows, the work of the Belgian artist Maurice Hizette (1959), preside over the facade with the image of the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus.
- In 1959 the church became a cathedral with the appointment of Monsignor Michel Ntuyahaga, the first indigenous bishop of Buyumbura; on 25 November 2006 Benedict XVI raised the seat to the metropolitan archdiocese.
- From a basic plant with a central ship and two side ships, it welcomes some 2,000 faithful under its bell of about forty meters crowned by the cross; rehabilitated in 2020, it continues to gather the city in the great diocesan celebrations.
Santa Maria Regina Mundi
Under the title of Regina Mundi, the Queen of the World, the Virgin Mary has since 1958 presided over the Cathedral of Buyumbura, on the banks of the Tanganica. Beginning on the Assumption Day of 1956, it is the mother church of the Burundian archdiocese and witness to the faith of a people who have known very deep evidence.
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