Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral, Daegu


The Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral or simply Cathedral of Daegu, is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in Daegu part of North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
It is a temple that follows the Roman or Latin rite and functions as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Daegu which was created in 1962 by bull "Fertile Evangelii semen" by the Pope John XXIII.
The present building was built between 1902 and 1903 and remodeled when it was elevated to cathedral status in 1911. Pope John Paul II visited the temple in May 1984.