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Medieval · AnglicanCanterbury CathedralCanterbury, England, United Kingdom597 AD (Augustine's mission); current structure from 1070Seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury and mother church of the Anglican Communion.Read the full history Medieval · AnglicanYork MinsterYork, United KingdomPresent Gothic church built c. 1220–1472; earlier churches from 627Northern England’s immense Gothic minster, preserving medieval glass, Roman and Norman foundations, and the long rivalry and partnership of English sees.Read the full history Medieval · Church of EnglandWestminster AbbeyLondon, United KingdomPresent Gothic church begun in 1245; earlier abbey tradition from the 10th–11th centuriesBritain’s coronation church and a vast archive of royal, political, scientific, literary, and Christian memory.Read the full history Medieval · AnglicanDurham CathedralDurham, United Kingdom1093–1133The great Norman cathedral above the River Wear, built for Cuthbert and Bede and celebrated for experimental rib vaults and massive patterned piers.Read the full history Reformation · AnglicanKing’s College Chapel, CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom1446–1515; glazing and screen completed under later Tudor patronageA royal college chapel whose fan vault, Tudor glass, carved screen, and choir carried a late-medieval foundation through Reformation into global broadcast culture.Read the full history Reformation · Church of South India with Portuguese, Dutch, and Anglican historySt. Francis Church, KochiFort Kochi, Kerala, IndiaPortuguese church established in the early 16th centuryA modest Fort Kochi church that passed from Portuguese Catholic to Dutch Reformed to Anglican and united Protestant use, recording shifting empires on India’s coast.Read the full history Reformation · AnglicanSt. Paul’s Cathedral, LondonLondon, United KingdomPresent cathedral built 1675–1710 on an ancient Christian siteChristopher Wren’s domed cathedral rebuilt after London’s Great Fire, serving parish, city, empire, nation, protest, mourning, and Anglican worship.Read the full history Reformation · EpiscopalOld North ChurchBoston, Massachusetts, United States1723Boston’s oldest surviving church building, known for the 1775 lantern signal and increasingly interpreted through Anglican, revolutionary, maritime, and slavery histories.Read the full history Modern & Global · AnglicanSt George’s Cathedral, Cape TownCape Town, South AfricaPresent cathedral begun in 1901; earlier St George’s church from 1834Cape Town’s “People’s Cathedral,” where worship and public witness challenged apartheid and continue to address justice.Read the full history Modern & Global · AnglicanChrist Church Cathedral, ZanzibarStone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania1873–1879The Anglican cathedral built beside Zanzibar’s former slave market, joining abolition memory, mission, local Christianity, colonial power, and present worship.Read the full history Modern & Global · Anglican — Church of UgandaSt. Paul’s Cathedral NamirembeKampala, UgandaFirst cathedral 1890; present building completed 1919The hilltop mother cathedral of the Church of Uganda, shaped by Buganda’s political world, African evangelists, missionary networks, fires, rebuilding, and revival.Read the full history Modern & Global · EpiscopalWashington National CathedralWashington, District of Columbia, United States1907–1990The Episcopal cathedral conceived as a national house of prayer, hosting worship, presidential funerals, public mourning, justice debates, and interfaith ceremony.Read the full history Modern & Global · AnglicanAll Saints’ Cathedral, NairobiNairobi, KenyaFoundation stone laid 1917; dedicated 1924Nairobi’s Anglican cathedral, transformed from a colonial-era church into a major African congregation engaged in worship, discipleship, politics, and public life.Read the full history