Seoul Anglican Cathedral


The Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Nicholas or simply Seoul Cathedral, is an Anglican cathedral in Seoul, South Korea, and is the mother church of both the Anglican Church of Korea and the Diocese of Seoul.
Construction of the building began in 1922 to a design by English architect Arthur Stansfield Dixon and the cathedral is known for its Romanesque Revival architecture together with its mosaic murals. In 1985, a Harrison & Harrison pipe organ was installed in the cathedral's west end. Expansion of the cathedral was started in 1991 and was completed in 1996.

Chronology

A British museum worker visited the half-completed cathedral in the late 1980s ~ early 1990s and remembered that the original blue prints of the Cathedral drawn by Arthur Dixon, an English architect. He went back to England to get the blue prints from the museum archives and returned to Seoul with the drawing and handed it over to the Parish office. In 1994, the Cathedral began its expansion and was completed in 1996.