St Philomena s Cathedral Mysore

St. Philomena’s Cathedral is a Catholic church that is the cathedral of the Diocese of Mysore, India. The full call is the Cathedral of St. Joseph and St. Philomena. It is likewise referred to as St. Joseph's Cathedral. It changed into constructed in 1936 the use of a Neo Gothic fashion and its architecture changed into stimulated through the Cologne Cathedral in Germany. This is one of the tallest churches in Asia. A church on the identical region turned into constructed in 1843 by using Maharaja Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar.

An inscription which become there on the time of laying the muse of the present church in 1933 states: "In the call of that best God - the generic Lord who creates, protects, and reigns over the universe of Light, the mundane international and the assemblage of all created lives - this church is constructed 1843 years after the incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Enlightenment of the World, as man. In 1926, Sir T. Thumboo Chetty who become the Huzur Secretary to the Maharaja of Mysore, Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar obtained a relic of the Saint from Peter Pisani, Apostolic Delegate of the East Indies.