The St. Nicholas Cathedral ( vi, Nhà thờ Chính tòa Đà Lạt, french: Cathédrale Saint-Nicolas) also called St. Nicholas of Bari Cathedral (''Nhà thờ Chính tòa Thánh Nicola Bari'') is the cathedral of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Đà Lạt The Diocese of Đà Lat ( la, Dioecesis Dalatensis, links=no) is a Latin suffragan diocese of Roman Catholic church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam, yet depends on the ...

, suffragan of the

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(alternatively still called Saigon), located in

Da Lat Da Lat (also written as Dalat, vi, Đà Lạt; ), is the capital of Lâm Đồng Province and the largest city of the Central Highlands region in Vietnam. The city is located above sea level on the Langbian Plateau. Da Lat is one of the mos ...

, the capital of

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in the Central Highlands of

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. Originally built as a parish church in 1920 — to replace an even older church that had been built in 1917 — under Fr. Frédéric Sidot and subsequently rebuilt in 1922, the Cathedral was constructed by the French in 1931–1932 in an eclectic style Romanesque. Archbishop Colomban Dreyer – the Apostolic Delegate to Indochina – laid the cornerstone on 19 July 1931. On 14 November 1934, the cross that carries the brass weathercock) - the national symbol of France or a symbol of

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as mentioned in the

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s of the

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when a rooster began to crow after the denial of Peter. was installed at the top of the spire of the central bell tower. The interior was not completed until 1942. The Cathedral was blessed in February of 1942. There was a European cemetery around the church, which is no longer in use. There are five masses every Sunday.

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