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Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo

Josip Vancaš

Photo: Bosnien_catholic_church_in_Sarajevo.jpg: sbamueller derivative work: Rabanus Fla · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Location
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Client / Owner
—
Year
Completed 1887
Access
Public
Typology
Spiritual

Sacred Heart Cathedral in Sarajevo was supervised by the architect Josip Vancaš, with the Viennese contractor Baron Karl Schwarz. The article names no client. Work began on August 25, 1884 and finished on November 9, 1887. Consecration was on September 14, 1889, and the infobox and text match.

The infobox says Gothic Revival, and the text says Neo-Gothic with Romanesque Revival elements. The main altar is Grisignano marble on red Tyrolean marble columns. The cathedral is 137 feet (41.9 m) long and 70 feet (21.3 m) wide, and the bell towers are 142 feet (43.2 m) high.

It was damaged during the Siege of Sarajevo but not destroyed, and the damage has since been repaired. It is the seat of Archbishop Tomo Vukšić and the center of Catholic worship in the city. The article gives no hours.

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