Mor Yaqub Cathedral

The Mor Yaqub Cathedral, built during the Middle Ages, was one of the most important heritage sites in Cildania. In 3870 the ultra-secular and Selucian-minority government ruling Cildania at the time, wishing to put an end to religious practice in the nation, confiscated and demolished the medieval cathedral, an action that was widely regarded as a crime against humanity and that became one of the central causes behind the brutal Cildanian Civil War. After the defeat of the Selucian apartheid regime but before the end of the civil war a new cathedral was built on the same location in 3878. Built in an Art Moderne and New Classical style, the new Mor Yaqub Cathedral is characterized by its light, airy interior (reminiscent of an open-air Qedarite temple yard) and its traditional Augustan-style iconography. The new Cathedral has been controversial since its construction, as it ignored the architecture of the medieval Cathedral in favor of an ultra-modern style.