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Campaneyan Kristo Rai

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
84000207

Added to NRHP
  
30 October 1984

Built
  
1932 (1932)

Opened
  
1932

Campaneyan Kristo Rai httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
Beach Rd., Garapan, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

The Campaneyan Kriso Rai, also known as the Catholic Belltower, is a historic church tower in Garapan, the largest village on Saipan island in the Northern Mariana Islands. Built in 1932, it is the only element of the island's most prominent Roman Catholic church to survive bombardment in World War II. The tower, a concrete structure 3 metres (9.8 ft) square and 10 metres (33 ft) tall, was built by Spanish Jesuits brought in by the Japanese South Pacific Mandate administration, and stood next to an 1860 wood-frame church.

The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

Campaneyan Kristo Rai Wikipedia