Romanian Catholics protest high-rise construction threatening Bucharest cathedral

July 17, 2009

Catholics in Bucharest, Romania have organized public protests against a court decision that gave the go-ahead for construction of a massive new office building adjacent to the city's Latin-rite cathedral of St. Joseph. Church officials have been engaged in a long legal dispute with real-estate developers, arguing that the new high-rise building will alter the architectural character of the neighborhood, dwarfing the cathedral, and possibly damaging its foundations as well.

 

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Further information:

• La cathédrale latine de Bucarest menacée par la spéculation immobilière (La Croix)