Landakotskirkja

The Krists konungs Basilíka (Basilica of King Christ), also known as the "(Church of Landakotskirkja), is the Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church of Iceland in Landakotskirkja (West-Reykjavik) and thus the principal Church of the Diocese of Reykjavik.

The first Catholic priests on Iceland were the French Bernard Bernard (1821-1895) and Jean-Baptiste Baudoin (1831-1875). There was a small chapel built at Landakotskirkja in 1864. By the growing number of Catholics came into being in need of a larger church. After years of construction period on 23 July 1929 by Cardinal Willem Marinus van Rossum inaugurated the ", at that time the largest church in Iceland.

The neo-Gothic church building was designed by Guðjón Samúelsson (1887-1950), who was also the architect of the Akureyrarkirkja in Akureyri and the until years after his death completed large Hallgrímskirkja in Central Reykjavik. The grey "is largely out of concrete and basalt tucked up. The church tower has a flat roof with no Spire and does thereby think of churches in England and Ireland. The stations of the cross in the Cathedral dates back to around 1900 and is a gift from the Bishop of Regensburg. Near the Church is the only Roman Catholic school of the country.

Secondary patterns of the Church are the Virgin Mary, Joseph of Nazareth, the Icelandic Saint Thorlac Thorhalli Patron Saint and the medieval Bishop Jón Ögmundsson.

In the Dutch "were two bishops of Reykjavik working: from 1968 to 1986 Hendrik Hubert Frehen, belonging to the order of Montfortanen, and from 1995 to 2007 Joannes Gijsen, former Bishop of Roermond.