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The Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral is a wooden Roman
Catholic cathedral located in the center of the capital city of Paramaribo, Suriname.
The Paramaribo cathedral is the largest wooden building in the Caribbean and
the largest and tallest wooden church in South America.
The cathedral was built between 1882 and
1901. It was closed for renovations for more than 20 years, reopening on
November 14, 2010. The cathedral was elevated to the rank of a minor
basilica by Pope Francis in 2014.
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2007 issue about apes and monkeys of Suriname: Nasalis
Larvatus or long-nosed monkey. In Indonesia it is also known as “Dutch Monkey” as
Indonesians remarked that Dutch colonizers often had similarly
large bellies and noses.
1 comments:
Beautiful church - ugly monkey hehe. Thats a hilarious anecdote though
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