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| Minden Cathedral | |
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| The Cathedral of Ss. Gorgonius and Peter | |
Mindener Dom | |
 The cathedral from the west side | |
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| 52°17′20″N 8°55′09″E / 52.28883°N 8.91918°E | |
| Location | Minden, Germany |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Website | Website of the Cathedral |
| History | |
| Status | Active |
| Dedication | Gorgonius Saint Peter |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | parish Church |
| Style | Romanesque (original & westwork) Gothic |
| Groundbreaking | 803 |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 91 m (298 ft 7 in) |
| Width | 39 m (127 ft 11 in) |
| Height | 11 m (36 ft 1 in) |
| Number of spires | 1 |
| Spire height | 55 m (180 ft 5 in) |
| Bells | 13 |
| Tenor bell weight | 5495kg |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Archdiocese of Paderborn |
Minden Cathedral, dedicated to Saints Gorgonius and Peter, is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. From the year 803 AD, when the area was conquered by Charlemagne, Minden was the center of a diocese and subsequently became the center of a small sovereign state, a prince-bishopric (Hochstift) of Minden, until the time of the Peace of Westphalia (1648), when Minden was secularized as the Principality of Minden (which lasted until 1806). Despite the whole principality became a protestant region, the cathedral remeined Catholic, and the Cathedral chapter consisted of Catholic and Protestant members unitl it was abolished in 1810. Today the church belongs to the archdiocese of Paderborn.