Cathedral of Funchal

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal is the house of prayer of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Funchal, which includes the greater part of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The late fifteenth-century house of prayer is one of only a handful couple of structures that survives practically unblemished since the early time of colonization of Madeira. The house of prayer is outlined in a Gothic style and has three naves.

The top of the church building highlights a Mudejar-enlivened plan and is of cedar wood. The outside dividers are made of stone from Cabo Girao. Amid the 1490s, Manuel I sent planner Pero Anes or Gil Enes to deal with the outline of the Cathedral of Funchal. The house of God was basically entire in 1514. Before culmination, be that as it may, by 1508, when Funchal was raised to the status of a city, the house of God was at that point being utilized for the festival of Mass.

The house of prayer contains a silver processional cross, gave by King Manuel I of Portugal, thought about one of the magnum opuses of valuable metalwork of Manueline Portugal. A statue of Pope John Paul II is situated outside the house of God, which was moved to its momentum position after some time ago being introduced in the urban region of Funchal nearby the waterfront.