HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL
A BRIEF BACKGROUND
Built in 1886, Holy Trinity Church (Yangon) perhaps the oldest colonial structure in Yangon. Holy Trinity Cathedral, an Anglican Church, was first used for Divine Service on the Second Sunday of Advent, 1865. The church held no bell, no pulpit, no font, no punkah (!), no lamps, no organ or other musical instrument, but at least it was there. It had cost 72,000 rupees, of which 10,000 had been raised by public subscription. And greater things were in store, for the English population of Rangoon was growing, and quite soon there was talk of the replacing the church with a cathedral.
STRUCTURE & LAYOUTS
This is the Anglican cathedral in Rangoon designed by Robert Fellowes Chisholm. Seemingly transplanted from England – but note the adaptation to the tropics in the porte-cochere at the base of the tower to shelter worshipers from the rain. Although the foundation stone had been laid in 1886 by the then Viceroy of India Lord Dufferin, due to a shortage of funds it took 9 years to complete the church vestibule. The spire was added in 1913 and the bell tower installed in the following year. During the Japanese Occupation of Rangoon, the cathedral was used as a brewery! After liberation, the chapel was dedicated to the British/Indian 14th and 12th Armies who fought in the Burma Campaign.
Holy Trinity Cathedral is located at 446 Bogyoke Aung San Street, on the edge of the downtown area, a little past the Bogyoke Aung San Market as you come from the Yangon Station. It is, of course, listed among those Top 200 buildings on the Yangon City Development Committee’s Heritage List.
Sources: ChurchCrawler, TalesOfAsia
Whenever I plan to shoot, there it rains… Finally, I had my shooting with an umbrella… A nice framing shot from the front right corner of the compound…
Built in 1886, that’s the oldest colonial structure in Yangon…
Feel the grandness of the cathedral… That’s located at the heart of Yangon…
That’s a bird-eye view of the cathedral taken from the fly-over…
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