The second biggest church in India, the consecrated Heart Church is a fine case of a structural wonder of Shimoga. It is a Catholic Church spread over a region of 18000 sq ft.The structure of the congregation is very extraordinary worked in a Roman and Gothic styles and houses a major supplication corridor with an enormous space for 5000 individuals. In any case, a statue of Jesus is the remarkable element of the congregation drawing in individuals in substantial numbers.In 1871 another Church started to be built and it was finished and favored on fourth April 1875 and was devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. On the erection of the Diocese of Shimoga, this Sacred Heart Church got the status of a Cathedral on fourteenth November 1988.