The mission very quickly began planning for a church as a center for worship and other activities and the priest Augustin Sträter acquired a plot of land which at the time lay on the outskirts of the city on a grassy field.

It was decided to erect the new church as quickly as possible and work on the foundation commenced before architects or builders had been hired.

The Catholic Church of Our Lady was designed in a form of Gothic Revival style with a 53 meters tall tower supported by buttresses and crowned by a slender, verdigris green copper spire.

The church is richly decorated with stylized greenery, flowers, angels, devils, dragons and birds and has glass mosaics focused on the birth of Jesus Christ.

The Central Station was built in the 20th century and the area around it was heavily developed with much taller block-style structure.