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Bahrain’s blessed Cathedral builds religious unity-By Dishan Joseph The new Catholic cathedral Source:Dailynews The Arabian Gulf’s largest Roman Catholic Church has been opened in Bahrain. Our Lady of Arabia Cathedral, which can seat 2,300 people, is located in a desert town about 20 kilometres south of the capital, Manama. The modernist Church with an octagonal dome, several tiers of seating, two chapels and an 800-capacity auditorium is set to become a focal point for Bahrain’s 80,000 Catholics and an architectural landmark. The Holy Bible says in Psalm 133: “How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity”. Today Bahrain has enriched these words by showing the world, how Muslims and Christians are able to live in peace. By the 1930s, Bahrain had become the commercial centre of the Arabian Gulf on the success of the oil boom. The Gulf’s first Roman Catholic Church – The Sacred Heart ...