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In Spanish colonial times, Guatemala City was a small town. It had a monastery called El Carmen, founded in 1620 (this was the second hermitage).The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua. [2]
The Holy Church Cathedral Metropolitan Basilica of Santiago de Guatemala also Metropolitan Cathedral, officially Catedral Primada Metropolitana de Santiago, is the main church of Guatemala City and of the Archdiocese of Guatemala (Archidioecesis Guatimalensis). [1] It is located at the Parque Central in the center of the city.
Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Tikal National Park: Petén Department. Mixed (i) (iii) (iv) (ix) (x) 1979 In the heart of the jungle, surrounded by lush vegetation, lies one of the major sites of Mayan civilization, inhabited from the 6th century B.C. to the 10th century A.D.
The Guatemala City Choirbooks form a collection of the Roman Catholic liturgical music used in the Cathedral of Guatemala City in the 16th and early 17th centuries. During that time, the cathedral (eventually demolished in 1669 after deterioration caused by several earthquakes) was an important center of Spanish culture in the Americas , with ...
1813 – Cathedral of Guatemala City inaugurated. [3] 1823 – City becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America. 1831 – Sociedad Economica museum established. [5] 1835 – Capital relocated from Guatemala city to San Salvador. [2] 1858 – Theatre founded. [5] 1874 - Earthquake. [5] 1879 – Gas street lighting installed. [6]
Old Ship Church: 1681 1960 Hingham, MA: Vernacular: Puritan, Unitarian Universalist: St. Luke's Church: 1682 1960 Smithfield, VA: Anglican: Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow: 1685 1961 Sleepy Hollow, NY: Dutch Reformed Church: Old Quaker Meeting House of Queens: 1694–1719 1967 Queens, New York City, NY: Society of Friends: Merion Friends ...
The LDS Church temple in Guatemala City was announced on April 1, 1981, and dedicated on December 14, 1984 by Gordon B. Hinckley. The temple was built on a 1.4-acre (5,700 m 2 ) plot, has 4 ordinance rooms and 3 sealing rooms, and has a total floor area of 11,610 square feet (1,079 m 2 ).
The history of Guatemala traces back to the Maya civilization (2600 BC – 1697 AD), with the country's modern history beginning with the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities in the Petén Basin , located in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned.