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The original Banja Luka Cathedral, called the Church of the Holy Trinity, was built between the two World Wars in down-town Banja Luka, and was later razed to the ground. For more than half a century after the Second World War, many new buildings were built in Banja Luka. The city authorities, however, would not allow the reconstruction of the destroyed Cathedral. Not long after the war, a monument to fallen soldiers was erected on the very spot where the Cathedral had been. At the beginning of the 1990’s, the Diocese of Banja Luka obtained permission to rebuild the Cathedral, and the war memorial was moved to a nearby location. The rebuilding of the Cathedral began in 1993 with the blessing of the grounds. The Cathedral was rebuilt under the name The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, because between 1963 and 1969, another cathedral had been built under the name Church of the Holy Trinity. |