For cathedrals & parishes
Every stone has a story.
Now every visitor can hear it.
Cathedra turns your church into a self-guided pilgrimage — carried on the visitor's own phone, with no docent required, no signage on the walls, and no signal needed.
Sacred Heart window · Savannah
The visit
Three ways to meet a church that most visitors never get.
Raise the phone
Point the camera at a window, an altar, a carving. Cathedra recognises it and tells its story. Nothing to scan, nothing to type, nothing to find first.
Wander with a map
An interactive floor plan marks what stands where, so a visitor can follow a tour in order or simply chase whatever catches the eye.
Listen, or read
Audio for those who would rather keep their eyes on the vaulting. Text for those who would rather read. Both, in the languages your parish actually serves.
How it works
A visit, start to finish.
They arrive and open the app.
Downloaded before the visit or on your wifi at the door. Everything they will need — tours, images, audio — comes down at once.
They point, or they wander.
Recognition for the curious. The floor plan for the methodical. A guided tour for the first-time visitor who would like to be led.
They leave knowing your church.
Favourites and progress travel with them, so a visit interrupted by Mass picks up exactly where it stopped.
The platform
Written by your people,
not your vendor.
Tours, objects, images, audio, and translations all live in a studio your own staff signs into. Add a Holy Week tour on Tuesday and it is on every visitor's phone the same afternoon — no developer, no support ticket, no change order.
- Draft, publish, and archive tours on your schedule
- Drag stops into the order a visitor should walk them
- Translations edited side by side with the original
Cathedra
Dashboard
Tours
Objects
Media
Floor Plans
Translations
Why it fits
Built for a church, not a museum.
It works with no signal.
Stone walls three feet thick defeat cell service, and cathedrals are not known for wifi. Everything syncs ahead of time and runs on the device itself.
Nothing gets taped to marble.
No QR codes, no placards, no kiosks, no beacons drilled into plaster. The nave stays exactly as the architect left it.
Every language you serve.
English first, with a translation workspace built in — because a cathedral's visitors rarely all share one language.
Your content stays yours.
No advertising, ever. Your tours, images, and recordings remain your property, and each cathedral's content is isolated from every other.
Founding cathedral
The Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist
Savannah's cathedral built Cathedra with us. Their building set the practical constraints the platform still works within, and their whole collection lives in it today.
103
Objects
6
Tours
80
Stops
Get in touch
Tell us about your church.
We will walk you through the visitor app and the studio behind it, and talk honestly about what setting up your collection would take.