Tripoli Cathedral was a Roman Catholic cathedral

Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop...

 in Tripoli

Tripoli

Tripoli is the capital and largest city in Libya. It is also known as Western Tripoli , to distinguish it from Tripoli, Lebanon. It is affectionately called The Mermaid of the Mediterranean , describing its turquoise waters and its whitewashed buildings. Tripoli is a Greek name that means "Three...

, the capital of Libya

Libya

Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

, located on Algeria/Elgazayer Square - Maidan al Jazair /Maydan elgazayer in the city centre.

History

The cathedral was officially opened in 1928, and among those who contributed in the interior design and decoration of the cathedral was the Libyan artist Othman Nejem.

Tripoli Cathedral was the second Catholic church in the city, the first was Santa Maria degli Angeli, constructed by the Maltese

Malta

Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

 community in 1870.

Conversion into a Mosque

In 1970, the cathedral was converted into the Maidan al Jazair Square Mosque (in Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

جامع ميدان الجزائر), after having been significantly rebuilt, and losing many of its original architectural features.