The Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus began construction in 1912 on the high bank of the Salar. The architect of the building was the Pole Ludwig Panchakevich. Among the builders were Austrian and Hungarian prisoners held in a camp near Tashkent. Among them were highly skilled engineers, masons, and sculptors.
During the Soviet years, construction
was halted. The unfinished building was used for various purposes: it housed a
dormitory and later a hospital. Many sculptures and decorative elements were
lost. In the late 1970s, city authorities began restoration, but it dragged on,
and the building was transferred to the Ministry of Culture.
In 1992, the building was handed over
to the capital’s Catholic community, and a year later, a new reconstruction
began under the leadership of engineer Alexander Ponomaryov and architect
Sergey Adamov.
In October 2000, the church was
consecrated by Archbishop Marian Oles.
The interior spaces are richly
decorated with marble and granite.
The
beautiful, tall cathedral building is visible from afar—it has organically
blended into the cityscape.
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