Catedral Basílica Menor Nossa Senhora da Glória (or simply Catedral de Maringá ''Cathedral of Maringá'') is a

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located in downtown

Maringá Maringá () is a municipality in southern Brazil founded on 10 May 1947 as a planned urban area. It is the third largest city in the state of Paraná, with 385,753 inhabitants in the city proper, and 764,906 in the metropolitan area (IBGE 2013). ...

, Paraná,

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, reaching 124 m in height. It was completed in 1972 and is the tallest church building in the

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and the 18th tallest in the world. Architect José Augusto Bellucci was inspired by the Soviet Sputnik satellites when he designed the cathedral's modernist, conical shape. The design was idealized by the archbishop Dom Jaime Luiz Coelho. The

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, a piece of marble from

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blessed by

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, was laid on August 15, 1958. The church was built between July 1959 and May 10, 1972, the 25th anniversary of the city.

Gallery

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External links

Cathedral of Maringá

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