First church dedicated to St. John the Baptist was built on the site (at that time located on the town's outskirts, now in city's center) in the years 1810-1811. Being small and apparently of wood, after 30 years in the years 1840-1841 was erected in its place a brick building, slightly larger. In the early interwar period the authorities decided to erect a monument in memory of the heroes of the WWI, but also a cathedral appropriate for a city found in economic and cultural flowering as it was Ploieşti.
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