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It also had a 22m diameter dome over the centre of the cross, consisting of a tiled wooden structure with an octagonal lantern that served as bell tower and internal decoration representing the Four
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second altar on the east side. The church was inaugurated on 30 August 1739 and for around a hundred years after that was the newest
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