The Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral also known as Pietermaai Cathedral or the Cathedral of the Holy Rosary ( pap, Kathedrale Reina di Santisimo Rosario; nl, Heilige Rozenkrans kathedraal) is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church, which serves as the cathedral of the Diocese of Willemstad (

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: ''Dioecesis Gulielmopolitana'') in Juliana Plein 5,

Pietermaai Pietermaai is a neighbourhood and former suburb of Willemstad, Curaçao. Pietermaai was founded in 1675, and has been designated a Unesco World Heritage Site. History Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao was constructed as a walled city. It soon de ...

Willemstad Willemstad ( , ; ; en, William I of the Netherlands, William Town, italic=yes) is the capital city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, constituent country of the Kingdo ...

a city on the island of Curacao and has under its jurisdiction all dependent islands of the Netherlands in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of

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. It was built in 1870, the exterior has a golden ocher and white parts. The interior is nicely designed and painted a bright white. The cathedral is also adorned with many statues as those dedicated to the venerable Dr. José Gregorio Hernández (whom some faithful attribute miracles in Venezuela and Curacao) and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the Pieta similar to that in

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. The cathedral follows the Roman or Latin rite and since 1997 is World Heritage of Unesco as part of the Historic Area of the city and port of Willemstad.

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