| 词条 | Christ Church, Zanzibar |
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|building_name = Christ Church |image = Christ Church Stone Town Zanzibar.jpg |caption =View to the cathedral |location = {{flagicon|Tanzania}} Zanzibar, Tanzania |map_type = Tanzania |map_relief = 1 |coordinates ={{coord|6.1629|S|39.1925|E|source:wikidata|display=title,inline}} |religious_affiliation = Anglican |architecture_style = |province = |municipality = Stone Town |functional_status = |website = |architecture = |architecture_type = |groundbreaking = 1873 |year_completed = 1879 |construction_cost = |specifications = |capacity = |length = |width = |width_nave = |height_max = |dome_quantity = |dome_height_outer = |dome_height_inner = |dome_dia_outer = |dome_dia_inner = |minaret_quantity = |minaret_height = |spire_quantity = |spire_height = }}Christ Church is an Anglican cathedral in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania. It belongs to the Anglican Church of Tanzania. It is a landmark historical church,[1] as well as one of the most prominent examples of early Christian architecture in East Africa.[2] It was built in seven years, the foundation stone being laid on Christmas Day 1873 until the opening on Christmas 1879[3], based on a vision of Edward Steere, third Anglican bishop of Zanzibar, who actively contributed to the design. As most buildings in Stone Town, it is made mostly of coral stone. It has a unique concrete roof shaped in an unusual barrel vault (that was Steere's idea) and the overall structure mixes Perpendicular Gothic and Islamic details.[4] The cathedral was consecrated in 1903 and named after the Canterbury Cathedral.[4] The church is located in Mkunazini Road, in the centre of the old town, and occupies a large area where the biggest slave market of Zanzibar used to be; the construction of the cathedral was in fact intended to celebrate the end of slavery.[4] The altar is said to be in the exact place where the main "whipping post" of the market used to be. In the square there is a well-known monument to the slaves (a few human figures in chains emerging from a pit) as well as a museum on slavery.[1] Edward Steere died of a heart attack when the cathedral was almost completed, and was buried behind the altar. Inside the church there is a cross that was made from the wood of the tree that grows on the place where David Livingstone's heart was buried, in Chitambo.[5] As many other historical coral-stone buildings in Stone Town, the Cathedral experiences decay and structural problems and needs restoring.[4] The cathedral is linked with the Ely Cathedral, in the diocese of Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK. Notes1. ^1 The Anglican Cathedral Church of Christ 2. ^Zanzibar Christians 3. ^{{Cite book|title=A memoir of Edward Steere,|last=Heanley|first=R. M.|publisher=GEORGE BELL AND SONS|year=1888|isbn=|location=London|pages=252}} 4. ^1 2 3 The Cathedral {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619001521/http://www.zanzibarfriends.org/cathedral.html |date=June 19, 2010 }} 5. ^Saint Monica's Tours {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502104732/http://www.saintmonicastours.com/ |date=May 2, 2012 }} External links
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