St. Emmeram's Cathedral, Nitra

St. Emmeram's Cathedral from above

St. Emmeram's Cathedral (Slovak: Bazilika svätého Emeráma) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Nitra, Slovakia. The entire cathedral is housed in the Nitra Castle precinct, much like Prague Castle.

It was originally built in the Gothic style and is composed of many parts. The upper church dates from 1333-1355.^[1] The rotunda dates back to the 11th-12th century and houses a silver reliquary made in 1674. Another reliquary in the cathedral houses some relics of Saint Cyril. The lower church was built between 1621-1642.^[2] Later on the entire cathedral complex was remodelled in the Baroque style.

Saint Emmeram of Regensburg, to whom the cathedral is dedicated, was an itinerant bishop who did missionary work from the court of the duke of Bavaria, Theodo I.

References

↑ Kouřil, Pavel (2007). Archaeologia historica (in Slovak). Muzejní a Vlastivědná Společnost. p. 391. ISBN 978-80-7275-072-6.
↑ "Bazilika svätého Emeráma" (in Czech). Svatbaonline.cz. Retrieved 7 February 2014.

Cathedrals in Slovakia

Roman Catholic	St. Francis Xavier Cathedral (Banská Bystrica) St. Martin's Cathedral (Bratislava) St. Elisabeth Cathedral (Košice) St. Emmeram's Cathedral (Nitra) Our Lady of Sorrows Concathedral (Poprad) Saint Nicholas Concathedral (Prešov) Assumption of Mary Cathedral (Rožňava) St. Martin's Cathedral (Spišská Kapitula) St. John the Baptist Cathedral (Trnava) Holy Trinity Cathedral (Žilina)

Greek Catholic	Temple of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Bratislava) Temple of Birth of the Holy Mother of God (Košice) Temple of St. John the Baptist (Prešov)

Military Ordinariate	Trinitarian Church (Bratislava)

Coordinates: 48°19′07″N 18°05′13″E / 48.31861°N 18.08694°E / 48.31861; 18.08694