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The Holy Rosary Church ( nl, Heilige Rozenkranskerk), also known as the Queen of the Holy Rosary Church, is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic church in the small town of
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on the island of
Saba Saba may refer to: Places * Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea * Şaba (Romanian for Shabo), a town of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine * Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras * Saba (river), ...
, a dependent territory of the
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in the
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, Caribbean Sea. Its history dates back to 1911 when the first wooden chapel was established for the Catholic community. Then in 1962, the current building was constructed in the same place and was dedicated by Bishop Holterman. The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and depends on the mission of the Conversion of St. Paul in the Catholic Diocese of Willemstad based on the island of Curaçao.


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Roman Catholic churches in Saba Roman Catholic churches completed in 1962 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the Netherlands {{Caribbean-church-stub