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Church · La Cité, Lausanne, Canton of Vaud

Lausanne Cathedral

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Lausanne

Lausanne Cathedral is the Gothic cathedral of Notre-Dame on the Cité hill in Lausanne, begun around 1160, consecrated in 1275 and a Reformed church since 1536.

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This record is the cathedral church, not its organ or the market stairs below it, which have their own Wikidata items. The site of the cathedral's ministry of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the canton of Vaud says it was begun around 1160, completed in 1245 and consecrated in 1275 in the presence of Pope Gregory X and Rudolf of Habsburg, that it is dedicated to the Virgin Mary as Notre-Dame, and that it has been a place of Reformed worship since 1536. The same page describes the 13th-century rose window by the glazier Pierre d'Arras, 108 panels of which 77 are original, and the painted portal added around 1230 to 1235. Lausanne Tourisme's page says the rose and its stained glass will be inaccessible until spring 2027 because of renovation of the vaults in the south transept, and that the tower can be visited. The parish site lists a Sunday service.

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City

Lausanne

Lausanne is the capital of the canton of Vaud on the northern shore of Lake Geneva, which its tourism board describes as built on three hills and as the home of the International Olympic Committee's headquarters. XTOUR maps Lausanne Cathedral, the Olympic Museum, the Collection de l'Art Brut and the MCBA fine-arts museum in the city.

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