The Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Cathedral (french: Cathédrale Notre Dame des Sept Douleurs) or just Kisantu Cathedral is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the town of

Kisantu Kisantu, is a town in the western Democratic Republic of Congo, lying south west of Kinshasa, on the Inkisi River. It is known for its large cathedral and for its botanical gardens, which include an arboretum of indigenous trees. Location Kisan ...

, south of

Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...

, the capital of the African country of

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

. The building Tuscan-inspired was built between 1926 and 1936 and previously worked there the old mission of Belgian Jesuits in Lower Congo established in 1893. Now the temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and serves as the headquarters diocese of Kisantu (''Dioecesis Kisantuensis'') which was created in 1959 by

Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 19 ...

with the bull ''Cum parvulum''. In 2011, he finished his last restoration. It is one of the main attractions of the city along with the Botanical Garden of Kisantu.

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Roman Catholic cathedrals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kisantu Roman Catholic churches completed in 1936 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{RC-church-stub

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