La cathédrale Saint-François-Xavier est une cathédrale catholique située à Nassau aux Bahamas, siège de l'archidiocèse de Nassau. Elle fut la première église catholique aux Bahamas à son inauguration en 1886.
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The Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Nassau, Bahamas. It is the seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nassau. and mother church of The Bahamas.
The cathedral church is located in West Street near the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
Its patron is St. Francis Xavier, a Spanish missionary, a member of the precursor group of the Society of Jesus and close associate of its founder, Ignatius of Loyola.
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The Archdiocese of Nassau is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The archdiocese encompasses the islands of the former British dependency of the Bahamas. The archbishop is the metropolitan responsible for the Diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda, which is a suffragan diocese, and the Mission sui iuris of Turks and Caicos, and is a member of the Antilles Episcopal Conference.
The first permanent Roman Catholic presence in the Bahamas was established in 1885 by the Archdiocese of New York, given the trade connections between the Bahamas and New York City. The archdiocese was originally erected as the Prefecture Apostolic of the Bahama in March 1929, and was no longer associated with New York by 1932. The diocese was subsequently elevated to the Vicariate Apostolic of the Bahama Islands in January 1941, and then to a full diocese, as the diocese of Nassau, in June 1960. On June 22, 1999, the diocese was again elevated as the new Archdiocese of Nassau.
As of 2004, the archdiocese contains 30 parishes, 15 active diocesan priests, 14 religious priests, and 48,000 Catholics. It also has 28 Women Religious, 14 Religious Brothers, and 13 permanent deacons.
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The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas is an art museum located in Nassau, The Bahamas. It was the first institution of its kind in the country's history. Announced in 1996 by then-Prime Minister Hubert A. Ingraham, NAGB was part of a broader effort to record, preserve, and interpret the narrative of the independent, sovereign nation established in 1973.
NAGB is a non-profit, quasi-governmental institution that collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets Bahamian art. The museum is partially funded by a government subvention but is independently overseen by a board of directors. It also relies on public and private support, including admission fees, memberships, donations, and other contributions. Its programming includes exhibitions, community outreach, access programmes, and educational workshops.
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West Hill Street is a street in Nassau, Bahamas, and is known for its historic buildings and connections to Bahamaian culture.
The historic Graycliff Hotel is on West Hill Street.
People have reported West Hill Street to be haunted.
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Government House is the official residence of the governor-general of the Bahamas, located in Nassau. It was built in the colonial days and was the residence of the governor of the Bahamas. It later continued in the role of official residence and office of the governor-general following political independence from the United Kingdom in 1973.
Built on a hill known as Mount Fitzwilliam and completed in 1806, this imposing stuccoed-coral-rock building on Duke Street is the Bahamian archipelago's foremost example of Georgian Colonial architecture. In 1814, Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, a Spanish scholar and soldier, wrote admiringly of its effect. The Oriental Herald, in 1825, stated: "The new Government-House, standing on the centre of the ridge that overlooks the town, was built by a sum voted by the House of Assembly from the funds of the Treasury and cost upwards of 20,000l. It is built in the European style of architecture, and is universally considered the best building of the kind throughout the West Indies".
The building's original neoclassical aspect, as well as its stone construction, was directly influenced by the arrival of Loyalists from the southern United States in the 1780s. Previously most Bahamian buildings had been built of painted wood. Typically Bahamian elements, however, include louvred wood shutters and brightly painted exterior, in this case a brilliant shade of conch-pink. The primary façade, centred on a pedimented entrance supported by four stout Ionic columns, dates from the 1930s, when the building was remodelled following the hurricane of 1929.
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