Se Cathedral
Portuguese-era cathedral with a lopsided facade, one bell tower lost since seventeen seventy-six.
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This guide to Se Cathedral in Goa starts with a gap in its own facade, one bell tower missing since it collapsed in seventeen seventy-six and was never rebuilt. It traces that absence back to the cathedral's founding in fifteen sixty-two, on the site of a small chapel raised right after Afonso de Albuquerque took the city in fifteen ten, and follows its growth into the largest church built by Europeans in Asia. The guide then turns to the open ground beside it, once the seat of the Goa Inquisition, and the tens of thousands of people who were brought before it over two centuries.
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