Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception is a Roman Catholic church building in Maputo city, Mozambique. It is devoted to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. The establishment stone for the development of the congregation was laid on June 28, 1936. Development on the church was finished in 1944. The church building was planned by the Portuguese structural specialist Marcial Simoes de Freitas e Costa, at that point a railroad executive. He planned the congregation professional bono for the Archdiocese of Lourenço Marques.

Freitas was propelled by the straightforward style and building materials of chapel development in Europe of the time; the house of God was at last worked of cement and concrete. He was propelled to structures, for example, the Notre-Dame du Raincy in Le Raincy by Auguste Perret and Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Fatima in Lisbon, worked by Pardal Monteiro. The effortlessness and the decision of new materials was additionally a consequence of budgetary issues of the period.