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University Church or Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

Katedrálny chrám sv. Jána Krstiteľa
University Church or Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
Katedrálny chrám sv. Jána Krstiteľa
Original function:
church
Current function:
church
Church:
Roman Catholic
Settlement:
Nagyszombat, Trnava 
Address:
Univerzitné námestie, 917 01 Trnava
Historical Hungarian county:
Pozsony
Country:
Slovakia
GPS coordinates:
48.380385, 17.588028
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History

The church was built between 1629 and 1637 in early Baroque style on the site of an earlier Dominican church and monastery. The church was built by Eszterházy Miklós, Palatine of Hungary, at the request of the Jesuits and Archbishop Pázmány Péter of Esztergom. lts Baroque main altar is from 1640. It has been the cathedral of the archdiocese of Nagyszombat since 1977.

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