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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.
With the support of the European Franciscan Congregation, the Ghent's clerics Jodoco Ricke and Pedro Gosseal, who were cousins of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, [4] they arrived in the city two years after its foundation, managed to acquire some plots on the southwest side of the Plaza Mayor de Quito, in the same place where one day the military seats of the heads of the imperial troops were ...
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 ...
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 .
Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic Church in Costa Rica: [1] Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar in Alajuela; Cathedral of Our Lady of Carmel in Cartago; Cathedral of St. Charles Borromeo in Ciudad Quesada; Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Limón; Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Puntarenas
Roman Catholic churches in Quito (7 P) This page was last edited on 10 December 2016, at 00:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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 .
The site was assigned to the Augustinian order in 1573, when they began construction of the convent, although the church would only be built between 1606 and 1617 by Juan del Corral, based on the plans designed by the architect Francisco Becerra in 1581, who also worked on the design of the Church of Santo Domingo.