Machar's church was superseded by a Norman cathedral in 1131, shortly after David I transferred the See from Mortlach to Aberdeen.
According to legend, St Machar founded a site of worship in Old Aberdeen in about 580. The River Don bends in this way just below where the cathedral now stands. A fourteenth-century legend tells how God (or St Columba) told Machar to establish a church where a river bends into the shape of a bishop's crosier before flowing into the sea. St Machar is said to have been a companion of St Columba on his journey to Iona. Technically, St Machar's is no longer a cathedral but rather a high kirk, as it has not been the seat of a bishop since 1690. It is located to the north of the city centre, in the former burgh of Old Aberdeen. St Machar's Cathedral usually called Old Machar ( Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-eaglais Naomh Machar), (or, more formally, the Cathedral Church of St Machar) is a Church of Scotland church in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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