Cathedral of Christ the King
Neo-Gothic basilica with a flat-topped tower and an altar shipped across the sea from Holland.
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This guide to the Cathedral of Christ the King in Reykjavik starts with its unfinished-looking tower and goes back to Landakot, a farm where two French priests arrived in a Lutheran country in the 1860s. You'll meet Bernard Bernard and Jean-Baptiste Baudoin, and the State Architect who was later asked to give the congregation a neo-Gothic church. Best heard standing in front of the tower, then carried inside to the pulpit and stained glass.
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