📍 Church📍 Heritage📍 Architecture

Kohima Cathedral (Mary Help of Christians)

Kohima, Nagaland, India

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Overview

One of the largest cathedrals in Northeast India, on Aradura Hill, its Naga-style timber ceiling arching over 3,000 worshippers.

Why visit: Naga-inspired architecture and a hilltop panorama over Kohima town.

History: Built partly with Japanese donations as a gesture of reconciliation for the war dead of the 1944 battle fought on these slopes.

Things to do

›Timber-arch nave
›Aradura Hill views
›Christmas midnight mass
›Reconciliation history

Heritage WalkPhotography

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–May; Christmas

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹100–200

Duration

1 hr

Nearby attractions

Within

1.1 km

📍 Museum

4.3

State Museum, Kohima

Kohima, Nagaland

A rich ethnographic collection of the 16+ Naga tribes — ceremonial dresses, weapons, jewellery, ancestral gateposts and a rare log-drum.

Oct–May1–2 hrsExplore

2 km

📍 Memorial

4.8

Kohima War Cemetery

Kohima, Nagaland

Terraced hillside cemetery honouring the Allied soldiers who fell at the 1944 Battle of Kohima — the turning point that halted the Japanese advance into India.

Oct–May1 hrExplore

2.5 km

📍 Market

4.2

Naga Bazaar (Kohima Market)

Kohima, Nagaland

The buzzing local market where Naga produce, smoked meats, bamboo shoot, king chilli, herbs and exotic hill foods spill across the stalls.

Oct–May1–2 hrsExplore

3.1 km

📍 Heritage

4.1

Razhü Pru & Kohima Heritage Walk

Kohima, Nagaland

The old Angami quarter of Kohima village (Bara Basti), one of Asia's largest villages, with traditional gates, morungs and heritage homes.

Oct–MayHalf dayExplore

4.2 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Village

4.2

Jotsoma Village

Jotsoma, Nagaland

An Angami village near Kohima with sweeping views of terraced valleys and a role in the 1944 siege as the relief artillery position.

Oct–May2–3 hrsExplore

6.2 km

📍 Museum

4.5

Naga Heritage WWII Museum

Kisama, Nagaland

A modern museum at Kisama telling the story of the Battle of Kohima through relics, dioramas and personal accounts from all sides.

Oct–May1–2 hrsExplore

6.3 km

📍 Festival

4.9

Hornbill Festival

Kisama, Nagaland

The 'Festival of Festivals' each December at Kisama, where all Naga tribes gather for war dances, folk songs, indigenous games, crafts and food.

1–10 Dec1–3 daysExplore

6.3 km

📍 Heritage

4.7

Kisama Heritage Village

Kisama, Nagaland

The permanent Naga Heritage complex 12 km from Kohima and the grand stage of the Hornbill Festival, with authentic morungs of all major Naga tribes.

1–10 Dec (Hornbill Festival)Half dayExplore

8.6 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Peak

4.7

Japfü Peak

Kohima, Nagaland

Nagaland's second-highest peak at 3,048 m, home to the world's tallest rhododendron tree recorded in the Guinness Book.

Nov–Mar1–2 daysExplore

8.9 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Village

4.8

Khonoma Green Village

Khonoma, Nagaland

Asia's first 'green village' — a 700-year-old Angami warrior settlement of terraced alder-fed rice fields that banned hunting and logging to protect the Blyth's tragopan.

Oct–MayHalf–full dayExplore

9.6 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Sanctuary

4.5

Khonoma Nature Conservation & Tragopan Sanctuary

Khonoma, Nagaland

A ~70 sq km community-declared sanctuary above Khonoma protecting the endangered Blyth's tragopan and old-growth forest.

Oct–AprHalf–full dayExplore

11 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Valley

4.9

Dzukou Valley

Kohima, Nagaland

The 'Valley of Flowers of the Northeast' — rolling emerald hills at ~2,450 m that erupt with the rare Dzukou lily and seasonal blooms in summer.

Jun–Sep (flowers); Oct–Nov (clear)2 days trekExplore