Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral in Baghdad, Catholic cathedral in Al Karadah al Sharquiya district, Baghdad, Iraq

Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral in Al Karadah al Sharquiya is a church designed in the shape of a boat, with a large cross rising like a mast and supporting an arch-shaped sail structure. The interior features wooden paneling on pillars and walls, while a carved wooden band above the nave displays names of victims from a 2010 attack.

The structure replaced an earlier church when it opened in 1968, a time when Christian families were relocating from central Baghdad. This rebuilt sanctuary reflected the community's movement to this new quarter.

The name Sayidat al-Nejat means Our Lady of Salvation. Above the altar arch hangs a painting of the Virgin Mary carrying the infant Jesus, made by the Chaldean priest Mikhael Oufi in Rome in 1904; it survived the 2010 attack undamaged. A wooden band above the nave carries the names of the victims carved into the wood.

The cathedral stands in Karada, about 380 metres from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Nareg, so the two can be visited on foot in one outing. The memorial room with the victims' photographs and belongings is in an adjacent room off the main hall. Visitors enter a working Syriac-Catholic church, one of three still active in Baghdad, so modest dress and quiet are expected during services.

The memorial room beside the nave holds photographs of the victims, sacred objects damaged on 31 October 2010, and personal belongings of Fathers Thaier Abdullah and Wassim Sabieh, both killed that evening. Mgr Pios Cacha photographed each of the dead one by one after security forces ended the stand-off.