The cathedral is located on the banks of the Blue Nile, next to the Mac Nimir Bridge.

It is the seat of the Archbishop of Khartoum, though the bishop is currently displaced due to the ongoing Sudanese civil war.

This building resembles a fairy-tale castle with its various turrets, slender spires and a large rose window.

When the British built the modern city of Khartoum as capital of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a new cathedral was constructed.

[4][5] Amid the third Sudanese civil war, which began in 2023, the Archbishop of Khartoum, Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria, was forced to flee across the border to Port Sudan, where he remains as of October 2024.