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The Church and Convent of San Ignacio de Loyola de la Compañía de Jesús de Quito, also known in the Ecuadorian people simply as La Compañía, is a Catholic clerical complex located on the corner formed by calles García Moreno and Sucre, in the Historic Center of the city of Quito, capital of Ecuador. The façade of its main temple is ...
The Quito Metropolitan Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral Metropolitana de Quito), is a Catholic cathedral in Quito, Ecuador.Located on the southwestern side of the Plaza de la Independencia (La Plaza Grande), it (and its predecessor building) served as a seat of the Diocese of Quito from 1545 until 1848 when it was elevated to Archdiocese.
In pre-Columbian Quito, the current lands of the Basilica and Convent of San Francisco were occupied by the royal palace of the Inca Huayna Cápac, [3] before the advance of the armies commanded by the Spanish from the south and the impossibility of defending the city the indigenous general Rumiñahui ordered its total destruction.
The Catholic Church in Ecuador comprises only a Latin hierarchy, united in a national episcopal conference, which comprises: four ecclesiastical provinces , each province is headed by the Metropolitanan archbishop of an archdiocese , and a total of 14 suffragan dioceses .
The Church and convent of San Agustín is a Catholic temple run by the Augustinian Order located in the Historic Center of Quito, Ecuador. The complex of the temple and convent is located on calle Chile, between Guayaquil and Flores.
There are a bit more than 30 Churches & Capilla's in the Historic Center of Quito, the best-preserved, least altered historic center in Latin America.In Spanish, (El Centro Histórico de Quito) was constructed on what was once a 16th century Inca city at 2,850 meters above sea level in the Andes Mountains near the Equator.
Archdiocese of Quito The Basilica of the National Vow ( Spanish : Basílica del Voto Nacional ) is a Roman Catholic church located in the historic center of Quito , Ecuador. It is the largest neo-Gothic basilica in the Americas.
La Iglesia de El Sagrario (Spanish, 'Church of the Sanctuary' or 'Church of the Shrine') is a Renaissance [1] Catholic Church in the city of Quito, capital of Ecuador. It is located in the Historic Center of the city, on calle García Moreno, formerly known as calle de las Siete Cruces, a few meters from the corner with calle Eugenio Espejo.