Portal:New Zealand/Selected article/Week 25, 2006

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Holy Trinity Cathedral is situated in Parnell, a wealthy residential suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. There has been an Anglican place of worship in the area since the founding of Parnell and Auckland in 1841.

The establishment of New Zealand's dioceses, and Auckland's fast growing population, meant that by the 1880s a larger church in the form of a cathedral was required. The existing church was demolished and in 1886 work started on a nearby site to build a new cathedral church of St Mary. This wooden Gothic church was designed by the prominent New Zealand architect Benjamin Mountfort and completed in 1897. The building served as the Pro-Cathedral and principal Anglican church of Auckland until the late 20th century, by when Auckland required an even larger cathedral.

In 1982 the wooden structure was moved, in its entirety, a short distance across the road to its present site closer to the present cathedral which was commenced in the 1930s. The two buildings, old and new, today form the cathedral complex of "The Holy Trinity".