The Holy Trinity Cathedral, Port-au-Prince () was the main

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in the

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. The building was located in

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Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( ; ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Haiti, most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The me ...

at the corner of Ave. Mgr. Guilloux & Rue Pavée. Holy Trinity Cathedral has been destroyed six times, including in the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010.

Murals

The present Holy Trinity Cathedral was known for its interior

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, which depicted various stories from the

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using only people of

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heritage. The murals were painted by some of the best-known Haitian painters of the twentieth century, including Philomé Obin,

Castera Bazile Castera Bazile (7 October 1923 – 27 February 1966) was a Haitian painter. Born in Jacmel, Bazile painted several murals in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Port-au-Prince, Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-au-Prince. He won the grand prize at the Caribb ...

Rigaud Benoit Rigaud Benoit (1911–1986) had become one of the three or four most highly prized Haitian artists well before his death. Early life A native of Port-au-Prince, Benoit had been a Shoemaking, shoemaker, musician, and taxi driver before making his ...

, Gabriel Leveque, Adam Leontus,

Wilson Bigaud Wilson Bigaud (29 January 1931 – 22 March 2010) was a Haitian painter. Biography Born in Port-au-Prince, Bigaud first worked with clay before becoming a painter. At the age of 15, he was introduced to DeWitt Peters (who in 1944 founded th ...

, Jasmin Joseph, and Préfete Dufaut. They were created under the direction of DeWitt Peters and Selden Rodman of the

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, and finished between 1950 and 1951.

2010 earthquake

Holy Trinity Cathedral was heavily damaged in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and later razed. The cathedral's

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, which was believed to be one of the largest in the

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region, was smashed by collapsing debris in the earthquake. The Holy Trinity complex, which housed

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and music academies collapsed in the catastrophe.

References

External links

Eglise Episcopale D'Haiti
— official website
Google search for imagesPictures of the murals
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Murals

2010 earthquake

See also

References

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