Saint Monica's Cathedral — Attraction in Cairns City

What a lovely church and glorious stained glass windows, depicting creation from a Biblical, scientific, and Australian/ aboriginal perspective in a manner that focuses on nature and wonder. Approaching on a quiet, sunny Monday afternoon, I could tell from the blowing curtain at the entrance and open doors on both sides, that the breezes and views would be wonderful. This is a church so please be respectful and remove your hat and allow church members to use their church. It is very generous of the cathedral to open their house to the public and be so welcoming and available. Some ugly tourists came in while I was there and proceeded to walk up on to the pulpit to take pictures and stood in front of people obviously praying, ugh. I was lucky to arrive with some local school children and the start of the 30+ minute non-preachy and informative audio presentation, definitely with doing if you can arrange the timing. I am not a Catholic but was very impressed by the message and the glory of our world and Creation presented here - definitely one of top things to see...

I saw the windows on the web and thought this is worth a visit. I wasn't disappointed. This is a beautiful showcase of history, culture, 1st nation and WWII. The artitstic talent is astounding. The detail is remarkable and you can see that the creator of this masterpiece has put their soul into this work. Congratulations, I believe this artwork will definitely grow in stature and become more widely proclaimed. Now for the baptismal windows to complete a...

From the outside this cathedral looks fairly dull but it's definitely worthwhile going inside to see its windows. Either side of the main door are a pair of windows that commemorate the Battle of the Coral Sea. Along the side walls are 24 themed windows that together dramatically depict a creation myth as described in Genesis. If you're lucky (as I was) there will be a student practising for a recital which adds to...