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Cathedral of Our Lady of Tashkent
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The most important Catholic cathedral in Uzbekistan, dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
In Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption is the center of the Catholic faith in the country. It was built in 1912 by the Polish and German Catholics deported.
History of the Cathedral
The cathedral was confiscated by the Soviets in 1930 and converted into a warehouse. For 60 years, Catholics celebrated mass in private houses. In 1992, after Uzbekistan's independence, the cathedral was returned to the community.
Pope John Paul II raised it to cathedral in 2005. Today, the Catholic community of Tashkent is small but devout, composed of Poles, Germans, Koreans and Uzbek converted.
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