Grazer Dom
Grazer Dom, or Dom St. Ägidius, is dedicated to Saint Giles—the patron saint of Graz—and it is the Roman Catholic seat of the Diocese of Graz–Seckau. The site has been sacred since at least the 12th century, with the first church dedicated to Giles appearing in a 1174 donation to Seckau Abbey. In 1438, Emperor Frederick III ordered the church rebuilt as his Gothic court church while he established the nearby residence of Graz Castle. Work was largely finished by about 1464, and the building later shifted roles: from 1577 to 1773 it served as the Jesuit collegiate and university church, when it was modified in a Baroque direction. Inside, a high Baroque altar dated 1730–33, made by Georg Kraxner, carries a painting of Saint Giles. The cathedral also stands adjacent to the Mausoleum Emperor Ferdinand II, linking religious ceremony to Habsburg dynastic memory.
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